noun
1. a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat')
• Hypernyms: ↑modification, ↑qualifying, ↑limiting
2. a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits
• Syn: ↑unpermissiveness
• Ant: ↑permissiveness (for: ↑unpermissiveness)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑restrictive, ↑unpermissive (for: ↑unpermissiveness)
• Hypernyms: ↑disposition, ↑temperament
• Hyponyms: ↑sternness, ↑strictness
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nounsee restrictive I
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restricˈtiveness noun
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Main Entry: ↑restrict
Useful english dictionary. 2012.