restrictiveness (n.)

  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

    [ Syn: unpermissiveness ]

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