permissiveness
nounEtymology
From permissive + -ness.
- derived from permissif
Definitions
The relative likelihood of something or someone to grant permission or allow something to…
The relative likelihood of something or someone to grant permission or allow something to happen.
- 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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for permissiveness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA