Definition for Permissiveness:

• The attitude that grants freedom of expression and activity to another individual, but not necessarily with sanction or approval.

Synonyms for Permissiveness:

• n.

  •attribute (noun)
  • tolerance.
  •indulgence (noun)
  • favoring,
  • intemperance,
  • kindness,
  • pleasing,
  • spoiling,
  • patience,
  • pampering,
  • Coddling,
  • allowance,
  • leniency,
  • endurance.
  •laissez-faire (noun)
  • latitude,
  • indifference.
  •lenience (noun)
  • charity,
  • lenity,
  • liberality,
  • benevolence,
  • clemency,
  • charitableness,
  • magnanimity.
  •mildness (noun)
  • cordiality,
  • moderateness,
  • evenness,
  • gentleness,
  • amiability,
  • laxity,
  • meekness,
  • libertarianism,
  • open-mindedness,
  • quietness,
  • peaceableness,
  • easiness,
  • mildness,
  • softness,
  • benignity,
  • moderation,
  • acceptance,
  • insipidity,
  • liberty,
  • tenderness,
  • geniality.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • abandon,
  • negligence,
  • remissness,
  • cosseting,
  • nonperformance,
  • inadvertency,
  • long-suffering,
  • sloppiness,
  • brim,
  • Culpa,
  • hem,
  • omission,
  • wantonness,
  • Licensing,
  • limit,
  • licentiousness,
  • progressiveness,
  • neglect,
  • loosening,
  • disposition,
  • oversight,
  • border,
  • Immoderacy,
  • overindulgence,
  • brink,
  • culpable negligence,
  • temperament,
  • gratification,
  • abandonment,
  • impotence,
  • humoring,
  • neglectfulness,
  • slackness,
  • failure,
  • looseness,
  • riotousness,
  • inadvertence,
  • weakness,
  • leeway,
  • slight,
  • winking,
  • nonfeasance,
  • overlooking,
  • unconstraint,
  • indiscipline,
  • easygoingness,
  • incontinence,
  • generousness,
  • default,
  • wildness,
  • relaxedness,
  • obliging,
  • relaxation,
  • condonation,
  • edge,
  • boundary,
  • allotment,
  • irrepressibility,
  • uninhibitedness,
  • unrestraint,
  • dereliction,
  • imprecision,
  • laxness,
  • connivance,
  • carelessness,
  • verge,
  • Unreserve,
  • lapse,
  • margin,
  • inattention,
  • procrastination,
  • Laches,
  • unruliness,
  • mollycoddling.

Paraphrases for Permissiveness:

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    toleration, laxity, tolerance, complacency, laxness, leniency.

Antonyms for Permissiveness:

• n.

  • attribute
    unpermissiveness.
  • indulgence
    disapproval, moderation, care, want, disfavor, abstention, frustration, temperance, need, intolerance, dissatisfaction, disregard.
  • lenience
    disagreement, prohibition, denial, unkindness, harshness, cruelty, meanness, selfishness, refusal, mercilessness, malevolence, indifference.
  • Other antonyms:
    restrictiveness.

Hypernym for Permissiveness:

• n.

  • attribute
    lenience, overtolerance, sufferance, acceptance, leniency, indulgence, toleration.

Hyponym for Permissiveness:

• n.

  • attribute
    temperament, disposition.