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UK
/pəmˈɪsɪvnəs/
]
[ US /pɝˈmɪsɪvnəs/ ]
[ US /pɝˈmɪsɪvnəs/ ]
NOUN
- a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior
How To Use permissiveness In A Sentence
- These differences, however, remain interesting findings in that they can help explain possible current conflicts between the young and old with regard to permissiveness or instrumentality.
- Permissiveness and democracy go together.
- We examined the possibility that mutual hostility and permissiveness expressed key structural characteristics of dyadic interactions that could best be tapped by perturbing the system.
- Tangier is a beautiful city, but in addition to being the ‘gateway to Morocco’ it's also the hot spot for rough trade, touts and general sleaze in all forms, a hangover from its past as an interzone of permissiveness.
- He's just starting his adulthood in a culture predominated by permissiveness and promiscuity.
- A high degree of social control was exercised by parents and peers, as can be seen from the fact that bundling usually led to marriage and not to sexual permissiveness or high rates of single mothers.
- Xisithrus, cannibalism is still a problem in Haiti and good deal of the fault can be laid at the door of liberal permissiveness. Think Progress » Rep. King: Undocumented Haitians Should Be Deported Because Haiti Is In ‘Great Need Of Relief Workers’
- He remembers the 1960s as being an era of sexual permissiveness.
- While legal reforms are clearly needed, some critics say what is vital is to reverse a generation-old trend towards evermore sexual permissiveness.
- The return to traditional family values is a reaction against the permissiveness of recent decades.