Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overpermissiveness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: over-per-mis-sive-ness
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Excessive permissiveness; the quality of being overpermissive.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The results (Klatskin, Jackson, and Wilkin, 1956 ) showed that sleep disturbances were related to maternal overpermissiveness in the sleep area."
"Among the reactions with which the child must learn to cope are overprotectiveness, overpermissiveness, anger or embarrassment, and rejection by society."
"Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed."

Etymology

From over- + permissive + -ness.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: over-
Suffix: permissive

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does overpermissiveness mean?: Excessive permissiveness; the quality of being overpermissive.
Where does overpermissiveness come from?: From over- + permissive + -ness.

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