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Restrictiveness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being restrictive. uncountable
  2. 2
    a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits wordnet
  3. 3
    a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (‘red hat’ has a more specific meaning than ‘hat’) wordnet

Etymology

From restrictive + -ness.

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