Definition of permissiveness in English:
 permissiveness
noun pəˈmɪsɪvnəspərˈmɪsɪvnəs
mass nounGreat or excessive freedom of behaviour.
 a new age of sexual permissiveness
 the permissiveness of the 1960s
 Example sentencesExamples
-  I did not argue that less permissiveness would lead to more violence.
 -  Perhaps they give him the same sense of permissiveness that allowed them to find their unique artistic voices nearly 40 years ago.
 -  Even in an age of moral permissiveness, such behaviour was held to be politically unacceptable.
 -  The responses of the women generally did not support a hypothesis about greater permissiveness in sexual behavior.
 -  When all things are permissible, then permissiveness loses its allure.
 -  Over the course of an hour, he made several stabs at the city's permissiveness.
 -  Permissiveness is ignoring misbehavior or failing to set reasonable limits on behavior.
 -  The biotech industry has grown up in an era of almost complete permissiveness.
 -  In his world, the norm would be one of extreme social permissiveness.
 -  If you're right, then society would be foolish not to just try out a little more permissiveness.
 
  Definition of permissiveness in US English:
 permissiveness
nounpərˈmisivnəspərˈmɪsɪvnəs
Great or excessive freedom of behavior.
 a new age of sexual permissiveness
 the permissiveness of the 1960s
 Example sentencesExamples
-  Over the course of an hour, he made several stabs at the city's permissiveness.
 -  I did not argue that less permissiveness would lead to more violence.
 -  The responses of the women generally did not support a hypothesis about greater permissiveness in sexual behavior.
 -  The biotech industry has grown up in an era of almost complete permissiveness.
 -  Permissiveness is ignoring misbehavior or failing to set reasonable limits on behavior.
 -  Perhaps they give him the same sense of permissiveness that allowed them to find their unique artistic voices nearly 40 years ago.
 -  Even in an age of moral permissiveness, such behaviour was held to be politically unacceptable.
 -  If you're right, then society would be foolish not to just try out a little more permissiveness.
 -  In his world, the norm would be one of extreme social permissiveness.
 -  When all things are permissible, then permissiveness loses its allure.