oughtness

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun In ethics, the quality which makes an action dutiful or morally obligatory.
2. noun The state or characteristic of something's being as it ought to be; rightness.
3. noun The obligatoriness of future actions or future states of affairs which are morally worthy of being produced through human effort.

Similar words

ought-not-ness obligedness duteousness moralness ethicalness dutifulness doingness doughtiness obligatoriness ethicality

Often followed by

is of and in to or that