RESTRICTIVENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)