Definition of "restrictiveness" []

• The state of being restrictive. (noun)

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• "Such restrictiveness is very substantially reduced, and, in the limit, may be altogether eliminated, when the unanimity criterion is shifted one stage upward, to the level of potential agreement on constitutional rules within which ordinary politics is to be allowed to operate."
• "Farmiga plays a woman who is a member of a small fundamentalist church, who begins to chafe at the restrictiveness of women's roles in that church."
• "I fictionalized the story because I have been a screenwriter for some time, and after the restrictiveness of writing screenplays, I wanted to be free to discover things and let the story lead me."