Oughtness

Noun

Definitions

1.NounIn ethics, the quality which makes an action dutiful or morally obligatory.

2.NounThe state or characteristic of something's being as it ought to be; rightness.

3.NounThe obligatoriness of future actions or future states of affairs which are morally worthy of being produced through human effort.

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