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permissiveness
Wiktionary
n. The relative likelihood of something or someone to grant permission or allow something to happen.
WordNet
n. a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior [syn: tolerance] [ant: unpermissiveness]
Wikipedia
Permissiveness may refer to:
- Permissiveness (biology)
- Permissive society
In endocrinology, permissiveness is a biochemical phenomenon in which the presence of one hormone is required in order for another hormone to exert its full effects on a target cell. Hormones can interact in permissive, synergistic, or antagonistic ways. The chemical classes of hormones include amines, polypeptides, glycoproteins and steroids. Permissive hormones act as precursors to active hormones and may be classified as either prohormones or prehormones.
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.