allowing or showing a freedom of behaviour that many people do not approve of, especially in sexual matters:
permissive attitudes * He is a product of the permissive society of the 1960s. * permissive parents (= who allow their children a lot of freedom)
permissiveness noun [U]:
the growth of permissiveness
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