noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun

1. 1
   The quality of being unpermissive. uncountable
2. 2
   a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits wordnet

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restrictiveness

Antonyms

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permissiveness

Etymology

From unpermissive + -ness.