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repressiveness

n. The state or condition of being repressive.

Usage examples of "repressiveness".

There was a reason for that repressiveness, she thought, and managed somehow not to giggle at the reflection.

The insistent permissiveness of the late Twentieth Century had produced fully as much sex-guilt and sex-fear in its heirs as had the insistent repressiveness of the late Nineteenth Century.