oughtness
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nounPlural noun:
oughtnesses
- 1.
(countable, uncountable)(chiefly philosophy) In ethics, the quality which makes an action dutiful or morally obligatory.
- 2.
(countable, rare, uncountable)The state or characteristic of something's being as it ought to be; rightness.
- 3.
(countable, rare, uncountable)The obligatoriness of future actions or future states of affairs which are morally worthy of being produced through human effort.