permissiveness UK [pə'mɪs.ɪv.nəs] US [pɚ-] noun uncountable ■when behaviour which some people might disapprove of is allowed •She attributed the social and economic problems of the 1980s to the permissiveness of the 1960s.她将20世纪80年代的社会经济问题归咎于20世纪60年代社会的宽容放任。 •He remembers the 1960s as being an era of sexual permissiveness.在他的记忆里,20世纪60年代是性开放时代。 |