permissiveness
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Permissiveness in the guise of non-judgment has aided in the triumph of selfish expression predicted by cultural historian Christopher Lasch in his 1979 book, “The Culture of Narcissism.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2018
Lately, however, it has been easy to assume that when the everything-goes New Permissiveness gusted forth in the 1960s, it blew the old book-banning spirit out of action for good.
From Time Magazine Archive
Permissiveness in publishing has come a long way.
From Time Magazine Archive
Privilege & Permissiveness The U.S. protests have clearly had an international impact.
From Time Magazine Archive
Permissiveness, according to the theory, makes us contemptuous of such "traditional values" as loyalty, self-sacrifice and the old till-death-do-us-part type of marriage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vocabulary lists containing permissiveness
Vocabulary from Readings 1, Unit 1
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The Suffix -ness, Part 5
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