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This is the noun: the quality of being too ready to allow things, of not being strict. People talk about the permissiveness of a parent, a school, or a whole time in history. It is usually not a compliment. Though actually, it is not “permission” with extra letters. Permission is the act of saying yes to one thing. Permissiveness is a habit of saying yes too often, or of not saying no.
放任;管教過寬
組成permissive + -ness.
同家族的字
- permissivethe adjective this noun is built from
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
permissivenessnoun
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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.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。