permissiveness
/pəˈmɪsɪvnəs
/noun [mass noun]
Great or excessive freedom of behaviour: a new age of sexual permissiveness the permissiveness of the 1960s...
- The responses of the women generally did not support a hypothesis about greater permissiveness in sexual behavior.
- Over the course of an hour, he made several stabs at the city's permissiveness.
- The biotech industry has grown up in an era of almost complete permissiveness.