oughtness (English, noun)
expansion: oughtness (countable and uncountable, plural oughtnesses)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In ethics, the quality which makes an action dutiful or morally obligatory.
tags: countable
uncountable
glosses: The state or characteristic of something's being as it ought to be; rightness.
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
glosses: The obligatoriness of future actions or future states of affairs which are morally worthy of being produced through human effort.
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
Forms:
form: oughtnesses
tags: plural