permissiveness
/pɚmˈɪsɪvnəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The relative likelihood of something or someone to grant permission or allow something to happen.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The permissiveness of campus life leads many college freshmen to try things they would never have experienced at home."
- "It is no accident that capital punishment is reentering our society on the wave of the conservative reaction to the permissiveness and laxity of the past two decades."
Etymology
Etymology tree English permissive Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English permissiveness From permissive + -ness.