UNPERMISSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unpermissiveness mean? 

• UNPERMISSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun UNPERMISSIVENESS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: UNPERMISSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNPERMISSIVENESS (noun)

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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 ("unpermissiveness" is a kind of...):

disposition; temperament (your usual mood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unpermissiveness"):

sternness; strictness (uncompromising resolution)

Antonym:

permissiveness (a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior)

Derivation:

unpermissive (not inclined to grant permission; severe in discipline)