English
prescriptiveness
From prescriptive + -ness.
Formed from prescriptive + -ness
Latin praescriptivus ‘relating to a legal exception’
English prescriptive
Today it means
noun The state or condition of being prescriptive.
Sources
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Etymograph / prescriptiveness