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Permissiveness

Permissiveness meaning

The relative likelihood of something or someone to grant permission or allow something to happen.

Synonyms of Permissiveness

Example sentences (9)

Neirman continued to lament the leeway the state is given to convict someone using anything they can throw at him coupled with the permissiveness of the judges that is erasing the rights of the accused.

Against the stifling conformity — whether self-imposed or external, I’m not sure — of Los Altos, Berkeley opened into permissiveness.

The boomers get tied to the sixties because they are assumed to have created a culture of liberal permissiveness, and because they were utopians—political idealists, social activists, counterculturalists.

The post led to an outpouring of tales of harassment and assault, which were hailed as helping to confront a culture of permissiveness in France towards unwanted advances.

However, that permissiveness stopped at the locker room and bathroom; the district instead directed the student to use a unisex facility.

They need to get professional help because all this permissiveness of boundary stepping on Blue’s part won’t be so cute when she’s a teen.

What kind of permissiveness are we helping to cultivate around misogyny?

As a result of this grammatical permissiveness, there is a tendency to gravitate towards brevity; Japanese speakers tend to omit pronouns on the theory they are inferred from the previous sentence, and are therefore understood.

Spock himself, in his autobiography, pointed out that he had never advocated permissiveness; also, that the attacks and claims that he had ruined American youth only arose after his public opposition to the Vietnam war.