Word family noun permission permit permissiveness adjective permissible ≠ impermissible permissive verb permit
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpermissiveper‧mis‧sive /pəˈmɪsɪv $ pər-/ adjective STRICTnot strict, and allowing behaviour that many other people would disapprove of parents who are too permissive a permissive society —permissiveness noun [uncountable] permissiveness in educationExamples from the Corpus
permissive• There was a generally growing permissive attitude, although I don't think that the attitude towards homosexuality was particularly permissive.• It's not always true that young people have a more permissive attitude towards sex.• permissive divorce laws• The Fifties were not a permissive era.• Police powers were permissive in dealing with the lower classes.• Earlier, permissive legislation had already enabled some authorities to innovate in services for the disabled.• It is also possible to combine a rejecting and an authoritarian attitude, or a loving and a permissive one.• Would you trust him/her to a permissive relationship with contemporary television?• In the permissive society of the 1960s anything was possible.• For both the conservative- and liberal-historians legislative change is of central importance to an understanding of the permissive society.• He had a very permissive upbringing.permissive society• For both the conservative- and liberal-historians legislative change is of central importance to an understanding of the permissive society.• We live in a permissive society.• Confusion and uncertainty are the major characteristics of the permissive society according to the conservative-historians.• For he grew up before the permissive society and remembers his adolescence.• The permissive society of the 60's and 70's was not yet dreamed of. 