permissiveness

Other forms of permissiveness

plural

permissivenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about permissiveness

What does permissiveness mean?

permissiveness means "a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior".

How many syllables are in permissiveness?

permissiveness has 4 syllables: per-mis-sive-ness. The stress falls on "mis". In IPA it is /pɚˈmɪsɪvnəs/.

What is another word for permissiveness?

Close synonyms include tolerance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of permissiveness?

The recorded antonyms are unpermissiveness.

Is permissiveness a common word?

permissiveness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.