English Explanatory Dictionary

oughtness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In ethics, the quality which makes an action dutiful or morally obligatory.
  2. The state or characteristic of something's being as it ought to be; rightness.
  3. The obligatoriness of future actions or future states of affairs which are morally worthy of being produced through human effort.

Word forms

oughtness oughtnesses

Etymology

From ought + -ness.

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