Usually means: Imposing restrictions; limiting freedom, accessibility.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. prohibitiveness: Merriam-Webster
  2. prohibitiveness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prohibitiveness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. prohibitiveness: Wiktionary
  5. prohibitiveness: Dictionary.com
  6. prohibitiveness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

(Note: See prohibitive as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prohibitiveness)

▸ noun:  The quality of being prohibitive.

Similar:
prohibitedness, forbiddingness, proscriptiveness, forbiddenness, inhibitability, disallowability, preventableness, preventiveness, obstructedness, obstructiveness, more...

Opposite:
permissiveness, leniency, allowance

Types:
illegal, forbidden, prohibited, banned, restricted, taboo, off-limits, verboten, more...

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Similar:
prohibitedness, forbiddingness, proscriptiveness, forbiddenness, inhibitability, disallowability, preventableness, preventiveness, obstructedness, obstructiveness, more...

Opposite:
permissiveness, leniency, allowance

Types:
illegal, forbidden, prohibited, banned, restricted, taboo, off-limits, verboten, more...



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