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Permissiveness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The relative likelihood of something or someone to grant permission or allow something to happen. uncountable

    "The permissiveness of campus life leads many college freshmen to try things they would never have experienced at home."

  2. 2
    a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior wordnet

Etymology

From permissive + -ness.

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