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per·mis·sive

/pərˈmisiv/

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adjective

adjective: permissive

1. 1. 

   allowing or characterized by great or excessive freedom of behavior.

   "the permissive society of the 60s and 70s"

   synonyms:

   liberal, broad-minded, open-minded, nonrestrictive, free, free and easy, easygoing, live-and-let-live, latitudinarian, laissez-faire, libertarian, unprescriptive, unrestricted, tolerant, forbearing, indulgent, lenient; More overindulgent, lax, soft "the permissive society of the 1960s"

   antonyms:

   intolerant, strict

2. 2. 

   LAW

   allowed but not obligatory; optional.

   "the Hague Convention was permissive, not mandatory"
3. 3. 

   BIOLOGY

   allowing a biological or biochemical process to occur.

   "the mutants grow well at the permissive temperature"

   • allowing the infection and replication of viruses.

     "in vivo, viral expression is restricted but in vitro, cultured cells are permissive"

Origin

late 15th century (in the sense ‘tolerated, allowed’): from Old French, or from medieval Latin permissivus, from permiss-‘allowed’, from the verb permittere (see permit¹).