Term: prescriptivism: (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behavior
Candidate hypernym: doctrine: a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school → 1
Candidate hypernym: commitment: the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) → 0
Candidate hypernym: arabesque: position in which the dancer has one leg raised behind and arms outstretched in a conventional pose → 0
Candidate hypernym: mucuna: any of several erect or climbing woody plants of the genus Mucuna; widespread in tropics of both hemispheres → 0
Candidate hypernym: fibroblast: a cell from which connective tissue develops → 0
Candidate hypernym: salvager: someone who salvages → 0
Candidate hypernym: akhbari: a religious movement by Arab Shiite Muslims in 17th century Iraq that is opposed to the Usuli → 0
Candidate hypernym: plastron: the front of man's dress shirt → 0
Candidate hypernym: legal power: (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law → 0
Candidate hypernym: latex paint: a water-base paint that has a latex binder → 0
Candidate hypernym: magnum opus: a great work of art or literature → 0