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Definition of Permissiveness
1. Noun. A disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior.
Generic synonyms: Disposition, Temperament
Specialized synonyms: Acceptance, Sufferance, Toleration, Indulgence, Lenience, Leniency, Overtolerance
Attributes: Permissive, Unpermissive
Derivative terms: Permissive
Antonyms: Unpermissiveness
Definition of Permissiveness
1. Noun. The relative likelihood of something or someone to grant permission or allow something to happen. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Permissiveness
1. [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Permissiveness
1. The attitude that grants freedom of expression and activity to another individual, but not necessarily with sanction or approval. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Permissiveness
Literary usage of Permissiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin (1997)
"THE COMMERCIAL DEMOCRACY OF permissiveness The condition of politics in a pragmatic
framework of non-sequen- tiality, non-linear functional dependencies, ..."
2. Marijuana Use in America: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary U. S (1996)
"The Slough of Drug permissiveness The prevailing myth is that the US has taken
a progressively tougher drug enforcement stance for the past 30 years and ..."
3. New Force on the Left: Tom Hayden and the Campaign Against Corporate America by John H. Bunzel (1983)
"In 1969, the New Left embraced permissiveness as a positive value that enabled
it to challenge the system's legitimacy. It is strange that Hayden should now ..."
4. Land Or Peace: Whither Israel? by Yael Yishai (1987)
"Materialism and permissiveness, the worship of goods and services that nurture
egotism and the idolatory of the here and now, will shortly cause Israeli ..."
5. Report to Congress on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing (1997)
""Premarital Sexual permissiveness among Negroes and Whites." American Sociological
Review ... The Social Context of Premarital Sexual permissiveness. ..."
6. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"Already and without effort rather queenly in her air as she stood in her white
lace and green leaves, she threw a royal permissiveness into her way of ..."
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