restrictiveness
1. a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific ('red hat' has a more specific meaning than 'hat') • Hypernyms: modification, qualifying, limiting 2. a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits • Syn: unpermissiveness • Ant: permissiveness (for: unpermissiveness) • Derivationally related forms: restrictive, unpermissive (for: unpermissiveness) • Hypernyms: disposition, temperament • Hyponyms: sternness, strictness
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