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Meaning of overpermissiveness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Excessive permissiveness; the quality of being overpermissive.

uncountable

Examples

“The results (Klatskin, Jackson, and Wilkin, 1956 ) showed that sleep disturbances were related to maternal overpermissiveness in the sleep area.”
“Among the reactions with which the child must learn to cope are overprotectiveness, overpermissiveness, anger or embarrassment, and rejection by society.”
“Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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