emotivism

/ (ɪˈməʊtɪˌvɪzəm) /


noun
  1. ethics the theory that moral utterances do not have a truth value but express the feelings of the speaker, so that murder is wrong is equivalent to down with murder: Also called: boo-hurrah theory Compare prescriptivism, descriptivism

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