oughtness

  1. Noun.  (chiefly, philosophy) In ethics, the quality which makes an action dutiful or morally obligatory.''Oxford English Dictionary'', 3rd ed. (2004).
  2. Noun.  (rare) The state or characteristic of something's being as it ought to be; rightness.(R:Webster 1913) .
  3. Noun.  (rare) The obligatoriness of future actions or future states of affairs which are morally worthy of being produced through human effort.

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