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- noun The relative
likelihood of something or someone togrant permission orallow something to happen.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior
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Examples
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So it seems more like a change in permissiveness norms rather than an overall increase or decrease in the permissiveness of sexual-orientation-related speech.
The Volokh Conspiracy » NY Times Room for Debate Forum on the Use of Offensive Language 2010
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Anyone who wants to stick with the tradition is accused of being a biblical literalist or a homophobic racist, because, in part, of the more fundamental change in our society towards permissiveness, that is, easy divorce, cohabitation and concubinage, abortion, pornography … and euthanasia.
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Because the ill tempered youth are as much a product of that kind of permissiveness as anything liberals teach.
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Adopted by anti-government hucksters, empire-seekers and profligate free-marketeers, they divided the nation with a 'God and Country' ethos that declared the Bible inerrant, reviled homosexuality, "permissiveness," liberalism and critical thinking, denied women equal rights, children any at all, and cowed the media into submission.
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The "permissiveness" or indifference of the ruler of the universe grows amazingly.
The War and the Churches Joseph McCabe 1911
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Actually, this characterization flows from the persistent conservative attack on the '60s generation as the product of supposed Spockian "permissiveness," based on our opposition to an unjust war and our engagement with mass movements against segregation, racism, sexism, poverty and homophobia and appropriately enough our support for the movement against ageism.
NYT > Home Page 2011
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Worse, advocates of 'permissiveness' such as Leary openly recommended the use of mind-altering drugs as a means to access a different, supposedly better, reality.
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Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster "permissiveness," and said that
Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture 2009
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Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster "permissiveness," and said that
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Just-released tapes from President Nixon's time in the White House reveal that he feared legal abortion would lead to "permissiveness" but that he felt that it was justified in some cases -- in the case of rape, but also when you have "a black and a white," the New York Times reports.
RHRealityCheck.org 2009
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