permissiveness
21National Deviancy Symposium — The National Deviancy Symposium (or National Deviancy Conference) consisted of a group of British Criminologists dissatisfied with Orthodox British Criminology, many of them later involved with Critical criminology and/or Left realism. According… …
22obscenity — /euhb sen i tee, see ni /, n., pl. obscenities for 2, 3. 1. the character or quality of being obscene; indecency; lewdness. 2. something obscene, as a picture or story. 3. an obscene word or expression, esp. when used as an invective. [1600 10; < …
23permissive — per|mis|sive [pəˈmısıv US pər ] adj not strict, and allowing behaviour that many other people would disapprove of ▪ parents who are too permissive ▪ a permissive society >permissiveness n [U] ▪ permissiveness in education …
24permissive — [[t]pə(r)mɪ̱sɪv[/t]] ADJ GRADED A permissive person, society, or way of behaving allows or tolerates things which other people disapprove of. The call for law and order replaced the permissive tolerance of the 1960s... Single parents are more… …
25permissive — adjective allowing behaviour, especially sexual behaviour, that many other people disapprove of: parents who are too permissive | the permissive society of the s permissiveness noun (U): permissiveness in education permissively adverb …
26overtolerance — noun too much permissiveness • Hypernyms: ↑permissiveness, ↑tolerance * * * n …
27restrictiveness — noun 1. a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific ( red hat has a more specific meaning than hat ) • Hypernyms: ↑modification, ↑qualifying, ↑limiting 2. a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine… …
28unpermissiveness — noun a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits • Syn: ↑restrictiveness • Ant: ↑permissiveness • Derivationally related forms: ↑restrictive (for: ↑restrictiv …
29come full circle — {v. phr.}, {informal} 1. To become totally opposed to one s own earlier conviction on a given subject. * /Today s conservative businessperson has come full circle from former radical student days./ 2. To change and develop, only to end up where… …
30come full circle — {v. phr.}, {informal} 1. To become totally opposed to one s own earlier conviction on a given subject. * /Today s conservative businessperson has come full circle from former radical student days./ 2. To change and develop, only to end up where… …
