restrictiveness

Definitions of restrictiveness

1. noun

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

   types:

   sternness, strictness

   uncompromising resolution

   Puritanism

   strictness and austerity in conduct and religion

   austerity, hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness

   excessive sternness

   type of:

   disposition, temperament

   your usual mood
2. noun

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

   limiting, modification, qualifying

   the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase