A2Z Dictionary
Home
Browse A-Z
About
Join
English
Español
Français
Deutsch
Italiano
Português
Русский
日本語
한국어
العربية
हिन्दी
Türkçe
🔍
Permissiveness
noun
Word Frequency:
0.5
Definitions
1.
noun
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."
Synonyms
tolerance
leniency
toleration
complacency
restrictiveness
movement
laxness
laxity
permissibleness
permissibility
unpermissiveness
nonpermissiveness
🔗
Find words with "permissiveness" in A2Z Word Finder
🔤
The Daily Word Nerd
A new word, a puzzle, and a fun fact — free in your inbox every morning.
Subscribe
Free forever · unsubscribe anytime ·
all 14 newsletters
That email did not go through — please check it and try again.