Definition of "prescriptiveness" []

• The state or condition of being prescriptive. (noun)

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• "Rank and file members of both parties want to undo NCLB's prescriptiveness around accountability -- but don't want to "cut and run" either."
• "Moving even farther away from structural priorities, Russell Jacoby criticizes “blueprint” utopias for their authoritarian prescriptiveness and recovers an “iconoclastic” utopia tradition rooted in Romantic philosophies and Jewish mysticism and exemplified by Ernst Bloch."
• "Finally, it is this descriptiveness versus prescriptiveness that results in confusion in the marketplace as different consumers have different views of the role of the guidelines."