RESTRICTIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does restrictiveness mean? 

• RESTRICTIVENESS (noun)
  The noun RESTRICTIVENESS has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: RESTRICTIVENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESTRICTIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

restrictiveness; unpermissiveness

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)