temperament vs restrictiveness

restrictiveness vs temperament

temperament and restrictiveness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
temperament	Yes	No	No	No
restrictiveness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, restrictiveness is a hyponym of temperament; that is, restrictiveness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than temperament:

temperament: your usual mood
restrictiveness: a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits

Other hyponyms of temperament include aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness, animalism, physicality, bloodiness, bloodthirstiness, heart, spirit, nervousness, esprit de corps, morale, team spirit, moodiness, blood, perfectionism, permissiveness, tolerance, unpermissiveness, good nature, agreeability, agreeableness, ill nature, disagreeableness, willingness, involuntariness, unwillingness, friendliness, unsociability, unsociableness, unfriendliness, calm, calmness, composure, equanimity, discomposure, optimism, pessimism, epicurism, gourmandism.

temperament (noun)	restrictiveness (noun)
an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys	a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits
your usual mood	a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat')
excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly)

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