straitjacketing
Binding someone's movement
Straitjacketing is confining or restricting severely, as if binding someone in a straitjacket—the garment used to restrain violent or disturbed patients.
The word is almost always figurative: The regulations were straitjacketing innovation.
It suggests excessive constraint that prevents natural movement or development.
Preventing movement entirely
- bindingLegally or morally required
- confinementState of being restricted
- containmentPreventing hostile expansion
- restrictionLimit on action
shackles · manacles · fetters · restraints · pinioning · trussing · wrapping · tethering
Limiting condition or rule
- restrictionLimit on action
- inhibitionMental check on behavior
- curtailmentAct of reducing scope
- hamperingInterfering with progress
hindering · impeding · throttling · suppressing · narrowing · confining · pigeonholing · bureaucracy
Supreme authority held
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- authoritarianismConcentrated, unchecked governmental power
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
tyranny · conformity · rigidity · orthodoxy · micromanagement · regulation · censorship · paternalism
Shelter from persecution
- institutionalOf formal establishments
- sedationDrug-induced calm state
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- deinstitutionalizationReleasing long-term patients systemwide
immobilization
Preventing movement entirely
- bindingLegally or morally required
- confinementState of being restricted
- containmentPreventing hostile expansion
restriction · shackles · manacles · fetters · restraints · pinioning · trussing · wrapping · tethering · securing
constraint
Limiting condition or rule
- restrictionLimit on action
- inhibitionMental check on behavior
- curtailmentAct of reducing scope
hampering · hindering · impeding · throttling · suppressing · narrowing · confining · pigeonholing · bureaucracy · inflexibility
domination
Supreme authority held
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- authoritarianismConcentrated, unchecked governmental power
coercion · tyranny · conformity · rigidity · orthodoxy · micromanagement · regulation · censorship · paternalism · dictation
asylum
Shelter from persecution
- institutionalOf formal establishments
- sedationDrug-induced calm state
- reformImprove by correcting faults
straitjacketingliberating
Setting free from constraint
freeing · emancipating · releasing · unbinding · unchaining
straitjacketingloosening
Reducing tightness or tension
relaxing · deregulating · loosening up · opening up · softening
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