permissiveness
nounEtymology From permissive + -ness.
1
The relative likelihood of something or someone to grant permission or allow something to happen.
- 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.1981 April 5, Theodore Solotaroff, “REVIVING THE ANCIENT ART OF EXECUTION”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2025: