Usually means: Ethics concerning duty, rules, obligations.
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  1. deontic: Merriam-Webster
  2. deontic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deontic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deontic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Deontic, deontic: Wordnik
  6. deontic: Wiktionary
  7. deontic: Dictionary.com
  8. Deontic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. deontic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  10. deontic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. deontic: Encyclopedia

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  1. deontic: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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▸ adjective:  (ethics, linguistics) Pertaining to necessity, duty or obligation, or expressions conveying this.

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deontological, debitive, obligational, denotational, dutiful, deictic, utilitarian, ontological, mandatory, necessitative, more...

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mandatory, obligatory, permissible, prohibited, more...

Phrases:
deontic logic, Deontic modality, more...

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Similar:
deontological, debitive, obligational, denotational, dutiful, deictic, utilitarian, ontological, mandatory, necessitative, more...

Types:
mandatory, obligatory, permissible, prohibited, more...

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deontic logic, Deontic modality, more...



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