What is the difference between restrictive and prescriptive?
restrictive | prescriptive |
Of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.
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As adjectives the difference between restrictive and prescriptive
is that restrictive is confining, limiting, containing with in defined bounds while prescriptive is of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.restrictive
English
prescriptive
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Adjective
(en adjective)- For one thing, spoken language tends to be less subjected to prescriptive
pressures than written language, and hence is a less artificial medium of com-
munication (written language is often a kind of 'censored' version of spoken
language). [...]