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Synonyms for permissiveness
noun luxury; gratification- extravagance
- kindness
- leniency
- permissiveness
- privilege
- allowance
- appeasement
- attention
- courtesy
- endurance
- excess
- favor
- fondling
- fondness
- forbearance
- fulfillment
- goodwill
- hedonism
- immoderation
- intemperance
- intemperateness
- lenience
- pampering
- partiality
- patience
- petting
- pleasing
- profligacy
- satiation
- satisfaction
- service
- spoiling
- tolerance
- toleration
- understanding
- babying
- coddling
- favoring
- gratifying
- kowtowing
- placating
- profligateness
- toadying
- treating
Antonyms for permissiveness
- disapproval
- disfavor
- disregard
- dissatisfaction
- frustration
- intolerance
- need
- want
- abstention
- care
- moderation
- temperance
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laissez-faire
noun. abstention from interference
lenience
noun. tolerance
- altruism
- benevolence
- broad-mindedness
- charitableness
- charity
- clemency
- compassion
- concession
- endurance
- forbearance
- freedom
- good will
- grace
- humanity
- indulgence
- kindness
- leniency
- lenity
- liberalism
- liberality
- liberalness
- license
- magnanimity
- mercifulness
- mercy
- patience
- permission
- permissiveness
- sensitivity
- sufferance
- sympathy
- toleration
- understanding
lenity
noun. tolerance
- altruism
- benevolence
- broad-mindedness
- charitableness
- charity
- clemency
- compassion
- concession
- endurance
- forbearance
- freedom
- good will
- grace
- humanity
- indulgence
- kindness
- lenience
- leniency
- liberalism
- liberality
- liberalness
- license
- magnanimity
- mercifulness
- mercy
- patience
- permission
- permissiveness
- sensitivity
- sufferance
- sympathy
- toleration
- understanding
toleration
noun. tolerance
- altruism
- benevolence
- broad-mindedness
- charitableness
- charity
- clemency
- compassion
- concession
- endurance
- forbearance
- freedom
- good will
- grace
- humanity
- indulgence
- kindness
- lenience
- leniency
- lenity
- liberalism
- liberality
- liberalness
- license
- magnanimity
- mercifulness
- mercy
- patience
- permission
- permissiveness
- sensitivity
- sufferance
- sympathy
- understanding
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.