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RESTRICTIVENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits
Synonyms:
restrictiveness; unpermissiveness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("restrictiveness" is a kind of...):
disposition; temperament (your usual mood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "restrictiveness"):
sternness; strictness (uncompromising resolution)
Derivation:
restrictive (serving to restrict)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific ('red hat' has a more specific meaning than 'hat')
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("restrictiveness" is a kind of...):
limiting; modification; qualifying (the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase)
