Usually means: Moral obligation or ethical duty.
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  1. oughtness: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. oughtness: Collins English Dictionary
  3. oughtness: Wordnik
  4. oughtness: Wiktionary
  5. Oughtness: Dictionary.com
  6. Oughtness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Oughtness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. oughtness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Oughtness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. oughtness: Free Dictionary
  11. Oughtness: Dictionary/thesaurus

Definitions from Wiktionary (oughtness)

noun:  (chiefly philosophy) In ethics, the quality which makes an action dutiful or morally obligatory.
noun:  (rare) The state or characteristic of something's being as it ought to be; rightness.
noun:  (rare) The obligatoriness of future actions or future states of affairs which are morally worthy of being produced through human effort.

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