metaethic

English

Etymology

meta- +‎ ethic

Noun

metaethic (plural metaethics)

1. (ethics) A theory of metaethics.
   • 1958 January, Paul W. Taylor, “The Normative Function of Metaethics”, in The Philosophical Review, volume 67, number 1, →JSTOR, page 24:

     Now Olafson points out, rightly I think, that the nonnaturalist or objectivist metaethic offers an account of ultimate moral disagreement which is much closer to what is commonly believed or implicitly assumed in ordinary life.