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Restrictive vs Constraining - What's the difference?

restrictive | constraining |

As an adjective restrictive

is confining, limiting, containing with in defined bounds.

As a verb constraining is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun constraining is

the act by which something is constrained.

restrictive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • confining, limiting, containing with in defined bounds.

    • constraining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is constrained.
  • * 1996 , Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change
    • In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.