Permissiveness

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  permissiveness
       n : a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior [syn:
           {tolerance}] [ant: {unpermissiveness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "permissiveness":
     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