emotivism

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Etymology

From emotive +‎ -ism.

Noun

emotivism (countable and uncountable, plural emotivisms)

  1. (ethics) The meta-ethical stance that ethical judgments, such as those containing the words "should" and "ought to", are primarily expressions of one's own attitude and imperatives meant to change the attitudes and actions of another.
    • 1999, Nigel Warburton, Philosophy: The Basics‎:
      Another important meta-ethical theory is known as emotivism or non-cognitivism. Emotivists ... claim that all ethical statements are literally meaningless.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French émotivisme.

Noun

emotivism n (uncountable)

  1. emotivism

Declension

singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative emotivism emotivismul
genitive-dative emotivism emotivismului
vocative emotivismule
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