PERMISSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does permissiveness mean? 

• PERMISSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun PERMISSIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior

  Familiarity information: PERMISSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERMISSIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

permissiveness; tolerance

Hypernyms ("permissiveness" is a kind of...):

disposition; temperament (your usual mood)

Attribute:

permissive (granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline)

unpermissive (not inclined to grant permission; severe in discipline)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "permissiveness"):

acceptance; sufferance; toleration (a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations)

indulgence; lenience; leniency (a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone)

overtolerance (too much permissiveness)

Antonym:

unpermissiveness (a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits)

Derivation:

permissive (granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline)