prescriptivity

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/pɹɪskɹɪpˈtɪvɪti/

noun

The quality or state of being prescriptive.

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Meanings

nounprescriptivity (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality or state of being prescriptive.
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    He is underambitious in his characterization of morality, cashing out prescriptivity in terms of prevailing expectations rather than objective authority, settling for an account of a sense of obligations rather than obligations themselves, and for empathetic behavior rather than empathetic motivations.

    2016, David Baggett, Jerry L. Walls, God and Cosmos: Moral Truth and Human Meaning, →ISBN

    Synonyms: prescriptiveness

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe quality or state of being prescriptive.

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Origin

From prescriptive + -ity.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with prescriptivity

activityrelativitynativityreflectivityproclivityprivitynormativityaffectivityallonormativitybinormativitycisheteronormativitycisnormativitydescriptivityhectivityheteronormativityhomonormativitysnacktivitytransnormativity
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Cite this entry
APA

prescriptivity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prescriptivity

MLA

“prescriptivity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prescriptivity. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prescriptivity,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prescriptivity.

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