The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oughtness
Oughtness \Ought"ness\, n.
The state of being as a thing ought to be; rightness. [R.]
--N. W. Taylor.
Wiktionary
oughtness
n. 1 (context chiefly philosophy English) In ethics, the quality which makes an action dutiful or morally obligatory.''Oxford English Dictionary'', 3rd ed. (2004) 2 (context rare English) The state or characteristic of something's being as it ought to be; rightness.(R:Webster 1913) 3 (context rare English) The obligatoriness of future actions or future state of affairs which are morally worthy of being produced through human effort.