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US
/ɹəˈstɹɪktɪvnəs/
]
NOUN
- a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits
- a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat')
How To Use restrictiveness In A Sentence
- And she is clearly a Mannian-like drumbeater for such restrictiveness, for without it her study? would smoldering in the same ashes as the hockey stick. Bender on Gaspé « Climate Audit
