restrictiveness

1. 1.

   a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat')

   Broadermodification
2. 2.

   a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits

   Synonymsunpermissiveness

   Broaderdisposition

   Narrowersternness

Other forms of restrictiveness

plural

restrictivenesses·

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.

Questions about restrictiveness

What does restrictiveness mean?

restrictiveness means "a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat')". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in restrictiveness?

restrictiveness has 4 syllables: re-stric-tive-ness. The stress falls on "stric". In IPA it is /ɹəˈstɹɪktɪvnəs/.

What is another word for restrictiveness?

Close synonyms include unpermissiveness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is restrictiveness a common word?

restrictiveness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.