oughtness

noun3

1. •
   In ethics, the quality which makes an action dutiful or morally obligatory.

   • Every attempt to derive oughtness from rightness must, as we have shown, either end in an illogical system or destroy the possibility of a separate science of Ethics at all. — 1886
2. •
   (rare) The obligatoriness of future actions or future states of affairs which are morally worthy of being produced through human effort.

   • I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him. — 1964
3. •
   (rare) The state or characteristic of something's being as it ought to be; rightness.