Unpermissiveness

noun

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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

Synonyms

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restrictiveness

Etymology

From unpermissive + -ness.

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