permissive
adjective/pəˈmɪsɪv/
/pərˈmɪsɪv/
- allowing or showing a freedom of behaviour that many people do not approve of, especially in sexual matters
- permissive attitudes
- permissive parents (= who allow their children a lot of freedom)
Extra Examples- a highly permissive attitude
- a society that is sexually permissive
- Even in the most permissive times fidelity in marriage is important to many.
- He grew up before the permissive society.
- The Fifties were not a permissive era.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘tolerated, allowed’): from Old French, or from medieval Latin permissivus, from permiss- ‘allowed’, from the verb permittere, from per- ‘through’ + mittere ‘send, let go’.
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