overpermissiveness

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English

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Etymology

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From over- +‎ permissive +‎ -ness.

Noun

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overpermissiveness (uncountable)

  1. Excessive permissiveness; the quality of being overpermissive.
    • 1965, Edward J. Murray, Sleep, Dreams, and Arousal:
      The results (Klatskin, Jackson, and Wilkin, 1956 ) showed that sleep disturbances were related to maternal overpermissiveness in the sleep area.
    • 1982, Rita Beck Black, Bruce P. Hermann, Jean Thatcher Shope, Nursing Management of Epilepsy, page 97:
      Among the reactions with which the child must learn to cope are overprotectiveness, overpermissiveness, anger or embarrassment, and rejection by society.
    • 2006, Folia orientalia - Volumes 42-43, page 467:
      Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed.