A disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior

Usage examples of permissiveness.

I must reiterate that the polyvalence -- the almost unbounded permissiveness -- of interpretation is essentially of the same nature as that of Rorschach tests.

But I think there's more artistic pleasure to be gained from the ingenious circumvention of a taboo than from what is called total permissiveness.

This monkey mythology of Darwin is the cause of abortions, permissiveness, promiscuity, pills, prophylactics, perversions, pregnancies, pornotherapy, pollution, poisoning, and proliferation of crimes of all types what happened to pederasty, penis envy, peeping Toms, you think he's got business with the Bible?

The insistent permissiveness of the late Twentieth Century had produced fully as much sex-guilt and sex-fear in its heirs as had the insistent repressiveness of the late Nineteenth Century.