Usually means: Limiting freedom, options, or movement.
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  1. restrictiveness: Merriam-Webster
  2. restrictiveness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. restrictiveness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. restrictiveness: Vocabulary.com
  5. restrictiveness: Wordnik
  6. restrictiveness: Wiktionary
  7. restrictiveness: Dictionary.com
  8. Restrictiveness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. restrictiveness: Rhymezone
  10. restrictiveness: FreeDictionary.org
  11. restrictiveness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. restrictiveness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. restrictiveness: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. restrictiveness: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (restrictiveness)

▸ noun:  The state of being restrictive.

Similar:
restrictedness, unrestrictiveness, restrainedness, strictness, restringency, repressiveness, stringentness, striction, stricture, constrainedness, more...

Opposite:
liberality, openness, permissiveness, flexibility

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Similar:
restrictedness, unrestrictiveness, restrainedness, strictness, restringency, repressiveness, stringentness, striction, stricture, constrainedness, more...

Opposite:
liberality, openness, permissiveness, flexibility



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