allowing or showing a freedom of behaviour that many people do not approve of, especially in sexual matters 放任的;纵容的;姑息的;(尤指两性关系)放纵的 permissive attitudes 纵容的态度 permissive parents (= who allow their children a lot of freedom) 放任的父母
Extra Examplesa highly permissive attitude 极为开放的态度 a society that is sexually permissive 性开放的社会 Even in the most permissive times fidelity in marriage is important to many. 就算是在最宽容的时代,对婚姻的忠诚对许多人来说依然很重要。 He grew up before the permissive society. 他成长的年代是在20世纪六七十年代的宽容社会形成之前。 The Fifties were not a permissive era. 五十年代不是一个放纵的时代。
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Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘tolerated, allowed’): from Old French, or from medieval Latin permissivus, from permiss- ‘allowed’, from the verb permittere, from per- ‘through’ + mittere ‘send, let go’.