Meaning of Permissiveness | Babel Free

Definitions

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

uncountable

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Examples

“The permissiveness of campus life leads many college freshmen to try things they would never have experienced at home.”

“It is no accident that capital punishment is reentering our society on the wave of the conservative reaction to the permissiveness and laxity of the past two decades.”

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