Similar words: permissive, impressiveness, aggressiveness, passiveness, elusiveness, abrasiveness, decisiveness, pervasiveness. Meaning: [pər'mɪsɪvnɪs /pə-] n. a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior.
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(1) Permissiveness is used almost universally as a pejorative term.
(2) Permissiveness and democracy go together.
(3) What is to be made of this extraordinary permissiveness on the part of the maternal uncle?
(4) A new and radical permissiveness was the result.
(5) Don't confuse love with permissiveness.
(6) Does parental permissiveness affect children's development?
(7) I cannot tolerate the permissiveness in education.
(8) It mainly contains three kinds of doctrines : permissiveness , bereavement of free will and entitlement action.
(9) Parents should consider if the permissiveness of home life clashes with the structure of schoolday.
(10) Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as iftheywere adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reachthatstage.
(11) Their permissiveness to-ward their children reflects the wild abandon of their own lives.
(12) The dividing - line between permissiveness and sheer negligence is very fine indeed.
(13) The excessive permissiveness of present day parents is doing more harm than good to children and society as well.
(14) Issues such as pornography, marriage breakdowns, single parent families, welfare state dependancy, drugs and youth crime are all seen as having their origins in the "permissiveness" of the sixties.
(15) Don't confuse love with permissiveness. Sometimes telling a child no is the most loving thing you can do for him.
(16) This permissiveness is misinterpreted freedom, irresponsible freedom, and unreasonable freedom.
(17) The return to traditional family values is a reaction against the permissiveness of recent decades.
(18) He remembers the 1960s as being an era of sexual permissiveness.
(19) She attributed the social and economic problems of the 1980s to the permissiveness of the 1960s.
(20) Another indication of changing notions of artistic and aesthetic permissiveness was the reemergence of "calendar girl"-designs, such as the one below.
(21) Yes, our modern social fabric is thin, and the permissiveness of society has created unrealistic expectations and thrown the family in disorder.
(22) By comparison, the "red family" model can look dysfunctional — an uneasy mix of rigor and permissiveness, whose ideals don't always match up with the facts of contemporary life.
(23) A leading American religious thinker of that time called Dr. Spock "the father of permissiveness."
(24) With the development of the Internet, more and more Chinese, especially the young(sentence dictionary), have begun to advocate sexual permissiveness and sexual freedom.
(25) The bottom line is that we must accept our children for who they are and allow them to become what they will be. But don't misinterpret acceptance as permissiveness.
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