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• n  a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior

• Surveys reveal the breadth and depth of the new permissiveness.
• But chances are that growing permissiveness about homosexuality and a hedonistic attitude toward all sex have helped "convert" many people who might have repressed their .
• Sunday's march was a landmark, especially for a city long accustomed to sexual repression, and now grappling with a newfound permissiveness brought about by economic liberalization .

• tolerance

• unpermissiveness

News & Articles

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• GitHub CEO backs MIT open source license
  The CEO of popular code-sharing site GitHub is endorsing the MIT License as a mechanism for open source software usage, citing its permissiveness and brevity.
  July 26, 2013 - InfoWorld

Quotes

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• Chris Dodd in CNN (blog)
  I think since he did it, there have been periods of greater permissiveness-on the part of the citizenry and government regulations-and there have been periods where it has swung back to the notion of some higher level of propriety in broadcast... Michael Powell http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Powell_(politician)&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFIsbVjksBwtssrAyuq6FU0eIFW5g Chicago Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-george-carlin-languagejun24,0,187875.story&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG0YmOOfGsGN3C_ugepVoAH1CWEDQ Jun 24, 2008 73647 98642 permissiveness Well, you know, they come into office a year ago with all of this. And so, after the last eight years : to lay this at Obama's doorstep, in light of years and years of regulatory permissiveness when it comes to these kinds of operations occurring -...
• Oscar Tabarez in Guardian Unlimited
  We shouted at Ruiz that he could not let Doni go up to our players, but this permissiveness goes much further than Ruiz,Tabarez added. "There are certain things which happen......for example, they built two new dressing rooms at the...