permissiveness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From permissive + -ness.
Noun
[edit]permissiveness (uncountable)
- 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.
- 1981 April 5, Theodore Solotaroff, “REVIVING THE ANCIENT ART OF EXECUTION”, in The New York Times[1]:
- 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.