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[syn: permissiveness, tolerance]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
permissiveness
n 1: a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior [syn:
permissiveness, tolerance] [ant: restrictiveness,
unpermissiveness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "permissiveness":
abandon, abandonment, carelessness, charitableness, charity,
coddling, condonation, connivance, cosseting, culpa,
culpable negligence, default, dereliction, disregard, easiness,
easygoingness, failure, favoring, forbearance, generousness,
gratification, humoring, immoderacy, impotence, imprecision,
inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, incontinence,
indifference, indiscipline, indulgence, intemperance,
irrepressibility, laches, laissez-faire, lapse, laxity, laxness,
lenience, leniency, lenity, licentiousness, long-suffering,
looseness, loosening, magnanimity, mollycoddling, neglect,
neglectfulness, negligence, noncoercion, nonfeasance,
noninterference, nonintimidation, nonperformance, nonrestriction,
obliging, omission, overindulgence, overlooking,
overpermissiveness, oversight, pampering, patience, pleasing,
poor stewardship, procrastination, relaxation, relaxedness,
remissness, riotousness, slackness, slight, sloppiness, softness,
spoiling, sufferance, tolerance, toleration, unconstraint,
uncontrol, uninhibitedness, unreserve, unrestraint, unrigorousness,
unruliness, unstrictness, wantonness, weakness, wildness,
winking