prescriptiveness
- noun
- /prɪˈskrɪptɪvnəs/
:
prescriptividad
- The prescriptiveness of the regulations left little room for individual interpretation or innovation.
Examples
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The prescriptiveness of the school's dress code makes it clear how students are expected to present themselves.
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His prescriptiveness in the project guidelines frustrated team members who wanted more freedom to be creative.
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Each technology has different levels of prescriptiveness:
Blog text (21) -
In an attempt to keep the descriptiveness and prescriptiveness to a minimum, one could argue that a CHAT-based coding scheme would always be somewhat prescriptive.
Academic text (2017) -
But then again, their disclaimer of prescriptiveness concludes with these words: "We do not seek to create a complete catalogue of American knowledge but to establish guideposts that can be of practical use to teachers, students, and all others who need to know our literate culture."
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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3.4
Being very firm about rules and making people follow them
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9.0
A quality of rules that tells people what to do
The quality of setting rules or standards for behavior
The belief that strict language rules must be followed
A habit of following rules too strictly, often about grammar or accuracy
A strict attitude that limits what people can do
Antonyms
How Prescriptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
prescriptiveness = prescriptive (transparent) = prescribe + ive + ness
Formed by adding the productive nominalizing suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'prescriptive'; meaning is the quality of being prescriptive.
Etymology
Prescriptiveness comes from prescribe, which joins pre- 'before' and script 'write', as in prescription. So prescriptiveness is the quality of making rules or telling people how things should be done.