per·mis·sive

(pər-mĭs′ĭv)

adj.

a. Granting or inclined to grant permission; tolerant or lenient: permissive parents.

b. Characterized by freedom of personal behavior or a disregard of traditional social mores.

2. Permitted or optional: permissive uses of funds.

3. Biology Supporting viral replication. Used of a cell.

per·mis′sive·ly adv.

per·mis′sive·ness n.

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Noun

permissiveness - a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior

tolerance

disposition, temperament - your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition"

toleration, sufferance, acceptance - a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations; "all people should practice toleration and live together in peace"

indulgence, lenience, leniency - a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone; "too much indulgence spoils a child"

overtolerance - too much permissiveness

unpermissiveness, restrictiveness - a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits

Translations

permissiveness

[pəˈmɪsɪvnɪs] N → permisividad f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

permissiveness

n → Nachgiebigkeit f, → Permissivität f (geh); (of age, attitude, law, parents, school) → Freizügigkeit f; (sexually) → Freizügigkeit f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

permissiveness

[pəˈmɪsɪvnɪs] n → permissività

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And while hyper-networking and hyper-texting were both highly related to health risks, hyper-networkers were at especially high risk for stress, depression, suicide, substance use, fighting, poor sleep, poor academic performance, high television viewing and parental permissiveness.

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The findings of Study 1 indicated that, consistent with previous research, participants overestimated the sexual activity and permissiveness of their peers and thus perceived self-other discrepancies.

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While much of the Protestant world later followed it in this respect, it proved to be the first overthrow of many other moral principles, leading to moral permissiveness in general.

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Professor Hans Eysenk, the eminent child psychologist said in 1972: "If television advertising is effective and there is little doubt that it is, why should television advertising be less effective when it advertises sexual depravity, gratuitous violence and permissiveness generally." Common sense tells us that visual images, used as they are in the education and training processes, affect people and their behaviour patterns.

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These researchers developed the Sexual Attitudes Scale (SAS) which explores four factors of sexual attitudes such as permissiveness (e.g., how casual a person might be about sex), sexual practices (e.g., belief in sex education for young people), communion (e.g., what does sex communicate to the partner), and instrumentality (e.g., the purpose of sex).

Sexual attitudes of college students: the impact of religiosity and spirituality

(4) A second was the rising pressure of greater permissiveness and the loosening of social mores, itself associated with the growth of a youth-based consumer culture of pleasure and entertainment.

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