Prescription

In general, the word prescriptive refers to refer to normative judgments, i.e. judgments about what is good or bad, such as:Prescriptive analytics, third and final phase of business analytics Linguistic prescriptivism, the laying down of normative language rules Prescriptive (normative) economics, branch of economics that incorporates value judgments Prescriptive ethics, as distinct from meta-ethics and descriptive ethics Prescriptive mood, a grammatical mood used in some languages