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say it: ruh-STRIK-tiv-nuhs
restrictiveness is a noun meaning "a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat')". It is pronounced /ɹəˈstɹɪktɪvnəs/ — ruh-STRIK-tiv-nuhs. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat')
a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for restrictiveness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.