What is another word for permissiveness?
157 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ pəmˈɪsɪvnəs], [ pəmˈɪsɪvnəs], [ p_ə_m_ˈɪ_s_ɪ_v_n_ə_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for permissiveness:- attribute (noun)
- indulgence (noun)
- laissez-faire (noun)
- lenience (noun)
- mildness (noun)
- tolerance (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
Paraphrases for permissiveness
Opposite words for permissiveness:Synonyms for Permissiveness:
n.
•attribute (noun) •indulgence (noun)- excess,
- endurance,
- privilege,
- hedonism,
- kindness,
- pampering,
- understanding,
- patience,
- leniency,
- profligacy,
- intemperance,
- fulfillment,
- placating,
- partiality,
- Babying,
- kowtowing,
- allowance,
- attention,
- petting,
- appeasement,
- favor,
- satiation,
- courtesy,
- Toadying,
- satisfaction,
- service,
- fondness,
- favoring,
- gratifying,
- pleasing,
- Coddling,
- spoiling.
- charity,
- humanity,
- compassion,
- benevolence,
- freedom,
- lenity,
- altruism,
- good will,
- magnanimity,
- concession,
- grace,
- sympathy,
- sensitivity,
- mercy,
- liberality,
- charitableness,
- permission,
- clemency,
- mercifulness,
- license.
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.
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Noun, singular or mass
toleration, laxity, tolerance, complacency, laxness, leniency.
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Noun, singular or mass
Antonyms for Permissiveness:
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n.
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attribute
unpermissiveness.
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indulgence
disapproval, moderation, care, want, disfavor, abstention, frustration, temperance, need, intolerance, dissatisfaction, disregard.
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lenience
disagreement, prohibition, denial, unkindness, harshness, cruelty, meanness, selfishness, refusal, mercilessness, malevolence, indifference.
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Other antonyms:
restrictiveness.
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attribute
Hypernym for Permissiveness:
n.
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attribute
lenience, overtolerance, sufferance, acceptance, leniency, indulgence, toleration.
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attribute
Hyponym for Permissiveness:
n.
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attribute
temperament, disposition.
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attribute