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What is the noun for prescriptive?

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prescription
  1. (law)
    1. The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc..
    2. Also called limitation and negative prescription. A time period within which a right must be exercised, unless the right will be extinguished.
    3. Also called acquisitive prescription and positive prescription. A time period after which a person who has, in the role of an owner, uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly possessed another's property acquires the property. The described process is known as acquisition by prescription and adverse possession.
  2. (medicine) A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.
  3. (medicine) The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.
  4. (ophthalmology) The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc..
  5. A piece of advice.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “The Lancet letter also gave details of the herbal prescription which this patient supposedly was taking.”
      “The correct strength of the drug prescribed must be clearly written on the prescription.”
      “He stayed in London apartments, receiving curious visitors, rarely venturing too far from London and his doctor's prescription.”
prescriptionist
  1. One who advocates a prescriptionist approach.
  2. A specialist in preparing medications.
  3. One who prescribes.
prescriptivism
  1. (linguistics) prescribing idealistic norms, as opposed to describing realistic forms, of linguistic usage.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Something that tends to go along with prescriptivism is a pessimism about the future of a favourite language or languages.”
      “Just as a paradigm of mechanical prescriptivism took hold of the elocutionary movement in the nineteenth century, so too did it pervade instruction in handwriting.”
      “To some extent, the presence of phoneticians on the committee ensured that the strict prescriptivism expressed by Reith in 1924 was to some extent mitigated.”
prescriptivist
  1. Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.
prescriber
  1. A person, such as a physician, who prescribes medication
  2. Examples:
    1. “If this is an ongoing problem, ask your prescriber to write the prescription for the dosage form you can take most comfortably.”
      “Prescriptions must only be signed by the prescriber at the time prescriptions are written for a specific patient.”
      “If you vomit after taking a dose, call your prescriber or health care professional for advice.”
prescriptibility
  1. The quality or state of being prescriptible.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The question of prescriptibility was also a non-issue during the negotiations of the 1948 Genocide Convention.”
prescriptiveness
  1. The state or condition of being prescriptive.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I think the thing that most worried me about this text was its prescriptiveness.”
      “To give her her due, the headmistress wasn't too keen on league tables herself and has spoken out against government prescriptiveness.”
      “Differences in the federal role and the specificity and prescriptiveness of federal goals may also explain the reliance on ex post rather than ex ante approaches.”
prescriptivity
  1. The quality or state of being prescriptive.
  2. Synonyms:
prescriptionists
  1. plural of prescriptionist
prescriptivists
  1. plural of prescriptivist
prescriptivisms
  1. plural of prescriptivism
prescriptions
  1. plural of prescription
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He will save them money on antihistamine prescriptions but not return a penny of savings to consumers.”
      “Their prescriptions, in consequence, dramatically differ from those of the deep ecologists.”
      “Grass-roots campaigns, such as a move for free prescriptions, have been gaining ground.”
prescribers
  1. plural of prescriber
  2. Examples:
    1. “Drug prescribers and dispensers make variable efforts to discuss drugs with patients.”
      “Federal laws intended to prevent prescription drug abuse only allow prescribers to treat 30 patients at a time.”
      “I've no doubt that there's a lot of pressure on prescribers to prescribe and a lot of unnecessary prescribing.”
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