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per·mis·sive

  [per-mis-iv]  Show IPA
adjective
1.
habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguisticusage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
2.
granting or denoting permission: a permissive nod.
3.
optional.
4.
Genetics. (of a cell) permitting replication of a strand of DNA that could be lethal, as a viral segmentor mutant gene.
Origin: 
1425–75; late Middle English;  see permission, -ive; compare French permissif

Related forms
per·mis·sive·ly, adverb
per·mis·sive·ness, noun
non·per·mis·sive, adjective
non·per·mis·sive·ly, adverb
non·per·mis·sive·ness, noun

Synonyms 
1. indulgent, lenient, lax.
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Permissive is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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permissive  (pəˈmɪsɪv) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
— adj
1.tolerant; lenient: permissive parents
2.indulgent in matters of sex: a permissive society
3.granting permission
4.archaic  not obligatory
 
per'missively
 
— adv
 
per'missiveness
 
— n
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Word Origin & History

permissive 
c.1600, "allowing to pass through," from O.Fr. permissif, from L. permissus (see permission). In sense of"tolerant, liberal" it is first recorded 1956; by 1966 it had definite overtones of sexual freedom.
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