'permissiveness' definitions:
Definition of 'permissiveness'
(from WordNet)
noun
A disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior [syn: permissiveness, tolerance] [ant: restrictiveness, unpermissiveness]
Synonyms of 'permissiveness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- abandonment,
- carelessness,
- charitableness,
- charity,
- coddling,
- condonation,
- connivance,
- cosseting,
- culpa,
- culpable negligence,
- default,
- dereliction,
- disregard,
- easiness,
- easygoingness,
- failure,
- favoring,
- forbearance,
- generousness,
- gratification,
- humoring,
- immoderacy,
- impotence,
- imprecision,
- inadvertence,
- inadvertency,
- inattention,
- incontinence,
- indifference,
- indiscipline,
- indulgence,
- intemperance,
- irrepressibility,
- laches,
- laissez-faire,
- lapse,
- laxity,
- laxness,
- lenience,
- leniency,
- lenity,
- licentiousness,
- long-suffering,
- looseness,
- loosening,
- magnanimity,
- mollycoddling,
- neglect,
- neglectfulness,
- negligence,
- noncoercion,
- nonfeasance,
- noninterference,
- nonintimidation,
- nonperformance,
- nonrestriction,
- obliging,
- omission,
- overindulgence,
- overlooking,
- overpermissiveness,
- oversight,
- pampering,
- patience,
- pleasing,
- poor stewardship,
- procrastination,
- relaxation,
- relaxedness,
- remissness,
- riotousness,
- slackness,
- slight,
- sloppiness,
- softness,
- spoiling,
- sufferance,
- tolerance,
- toleration,
- unconstraint,
- uncontrol,
- uninhibitedness,
- unreserve,
- unrestraint,
- unrigorousness,
- unruliness,
- unstrictness,
- wantonness,
- weakness,
- wildness,
- winking