restrictiveness

Noun

Meaning

a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits

a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat')

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

unpermissiveness control limited limit limiting restriction restrict limitation qualification restraint constraint liberalization derogation restricted curtailment

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Antonyms

power second free release guide advantage

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Hypernyms

limiting modification qualifying temperament disposition

Hyponyms

strictness sternness

Examples

According to some of his biographers, his stepfather Bruno's alcoholism and the limited cultural life of the small town contributed to Handke's antipathy to habit and restrictiveness. Source: Internet

In English, restrictiveness is not marked on adjectives, but is marked on relative clauses (the difference between "the man who recognized me was there" and "the man, who recognized me, was there" being one of restrictiveness). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

restrictive covenant restrictive practice restrictively restrictivism restrictivist restrictocin