Associations to the word «Restrictiveness»

Wiktionary

RESTRICTIVENESS, noun. The state of being restrictive.

Dictionary definition

RESTRICTIVENESS, noun. A grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat').
RESTRICTIVENESS, noun. A lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin