1. A grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific ('red hat' has a more specific meaning than 'hat') 
2. A lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behaviour within certain specified limits
   - unpermissiveness

Derived forms: restrictivenesses

See also: restrictive

Type of: disposition, limiting, modification, qualifying, temperament

Encyclopedia: Restrictiveness

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