principledness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

principled +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

principledness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being principled.
    • 2010, Christopher Woodard, Reasons, Patterns, and Cooperation[1]:
      Perhaps counterintuitively, the key to learning more may be to stick for longer with the more coarse-grained description of our attitudes as being about degrees of principledness.