permissiveness
Letting things slide
Permissiveness is tolerance of behavior that others might restrict or forbid, especially regarding sex, drugs, or child-rearing.
The term often carries disapproval—critics invoke permissiveness to blame social problems on lax standards: the permissiveness of the 1960s, permissive parenting.
What one person calls permissive, another might call tolerant or open-minded.
Consent to receive
- leniencyMildness in punishment
- open-mindednessAcceptance of differing viewpoints
- forbearancePatient self-control, delayed enforcement
- broad-mindednessOpenness to differing views
nonjudgmental · patience · understanding · empathy · compassion · allowance · clemency · mercy
Mildness in punishment
- slacknessAbsence of tautness
- negligenceFailure to exercise care
- loosenessState of not tight
- carelessnessInattention causing mistakes
disregard · oversight · inattention · casualness · informality · leeway · slack · laissez-faire
Pleasure from satisfying desires
- hedonismPursuit of gratification
- self-indulgenceExcessive yielding to desires
- pleasure-seekingPursuit of enjoyment
- decadenceMoral decline through excess
extravagance · excess · pampering · luxury · licentiousness · libertinism · free love · dissolution
Independent decision-making capacity
- libertyAbsence of unjust constraint
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- independenceFreedom from external control
- free-willAutonomous decision-making capacity
latitude · discretion · deregulation · openness · flexibility · choice · agency · empowerment
acceptance
Consent to receive
- leniencyMildness in punishment
- open-mindednessAcceptance of differing viewpoints
- forbearancePatient self-control, delayed enforcement
broad-mindedness · nonjudgmental · patience · understanding · empathy · compassion · allowance · clemency · mercy · grace
leniency
Mildness in punishment
- slacknessAbsence of tautness
- negligenceFailure to exercise care
- loosenessState of not tight
carelessness · disregard · oversight · inattention · casualness · informality · leeway · slack · laissez-faire · spoiling
gratification
Pleasure from satisfying desires
- hedonismPursuit of gratification
- self-indulgenceExcessive yielding to desires
- pleasure-seekingPursuit of enjoyment
decadence · extravagance · excess · pampering · luxury · licentiousness · libertinism · free love · dissolution · profligacy
autonomy
Independent decision-making capacity
- libertyAbsence of unjust constraint
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- independenceFreedom from external control
free-will · latitude · discretion · deregulation · openness · flexibility · choice · agency · empowerment · self-governance
- tolerancetolerance, forbearance, patience, understanding, empathy
- sexual ethicssexual morality, sexual ethics, chastity, adultery, human sexuality
- parentinggentle parenting, child, mom, children, kids
- chaosmayhem, chaotic, pandemonium, bedlam, turmoil
- compassionsympathy, empathy, caring, kindness, tenderness
- mercyclemency, compassion, forgiveness, leniency, lenience
permissivenessstrictness
Inflexibility in enforcement
restrictiveness · discipline · authoritarianism · rigidity · severity
permissivenessintolerance
Unwillingness to accept differences
puritanism · bigotry · conservatism · prudishness · narrow-mindedness
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