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词汇 permissiveness
释义 permissiveness
noun[ U ]
uk /pəˈmɪs.ɪv.nəs/ us /pɚˈmɪs.ɪv.nəs/
a situation in which behaviour that some people might disapprove of is allowed: 放任;放纵
She attributed the social and economic problems of the 1980s to the permissiveness of the 1960s.她将20世纪80年代的社会经济问题归咎于20世纪60年代社会的宽容放任。
He remembers his youth as being an era of sexual permissiveness.在他的记忆里,年轻时代是性开放时代。
Synonym
tolerance
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Freedom to act
(as) free as a birdidiom
agency
at willidiom
autonomist
autonomous
free hand
free pass
free reinidiom
free spirit
free-form
no holds barredidiom
non-autonomous
non-didactic
non-directed
non-restricted
the world is someone's oysteridiom
walk
walk freeidiom
wiggle room
wriggle room

Examples of permissiveness


permissiveness
There are two ways in which this permissiveness is manifested.
But then, their permissiveness is even graver, for they cannot be excused on the basis of ignorance.
Something that was normal for the body had escaped regulation and was expanding unchecked - the military-industrial complex, the media, permissiveness, youth.
As a first intuition, the numbers are in increasing order of "permissiveness to reuse" in the terms.
Despite this, there is evidence for a degree of permissiveness regarding the composition of transmembrane domains and fusion function.
The costs of entrance are measured by formation costs and institutional permissiveness.
Alternatively, (and for all the talk about permissiveness and an easier moral climate) young women still find it embarrassing to go in search of contraceptive information.
However, the permissiveness is limited, first, by the very criteria for qualifying as a doxastic practice (especially the requirement of being socially established), and second, by certain practice-independent requirements.
This phenomenon is not rare in situations of language contact, but it is a clue to the permissiveness and permeability of the use of the available linguistic resources.
Another was the permissiveness that characterised their attitude towards larceny.
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I believe that that omission suggests a legislative indifference to permissiveness and a subjection to sensuality.
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This dilution—bad luck, again, for the schools—occurred at an unfortunate moment when permissiveness and indiscipline were growing throughout society.
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Here, a policy of permissiveness has also worked but in precisely the opposite direction.
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It is suggested that the present robe of permissiveness should cover its use.
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I am not going to refer to violence or to permissiveness.
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