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Meaning of prescriptivity | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
pɹɪskɹɪpˈtɪvɪti

Definitions

The quality or state of being prescriptive.

uncountable

Examples

“He is underambitious in his characterization of morality, cashing out prescriptivity in terms of prevailing expectations rather than objective authority, settling for an account of a sense of obligations rather than obligations themselves, and for empathetic behavior rather than empathetic motivations.”

CEFR level

C2
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