permissivism

[per-mis-uh-viz-uhm]

noun

1. lenience toward or indulgence of a wide variety of social behavior.

Other Word Forms

• permissivist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of permissivism¹

First recorded in 1965–70; permissive + -ism

Example Sentences

He stopped drinking, he began interrogating friends about their spiritual condition, and he transformed Commentary again, this time into the scourge of left-wing permissivism and progressivism.

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