From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpermissiveper‧mis‧sive /pəˈmɪsɪv $ pər-/ adjectiveSTRICTnot strict, and allowing behaviour that many other people would disapprove ofparents who are too permissivea permissive society —permissiveness noun [uncountable]permissiveness in educationExamples from the Corpuspermissive• It's not always true that young people have a more permissiveattitude towards sex.• permissivedivorce laws• The Fifties were not a permissiveera.• Police powers were permissive in dealing with the lower classes.• Earlier, permissivelegislation had already enabled some authorities to innovate in services for the disabled.• It is also possible to combine a rejecting and an authoritarian attitude, or a loving and a permissive one.• Would you trust him/her to a permissiverelationship with contemporarytelevision?• In the permissivesociety of the 1960s anything was possible.• For both the conservative- and liberal-historians legislative change is of centralimportance to an understanding of the permissive society.• He had a very permissiveupbringing.permissive society• For both the conservative- and liberal-historians legislative change is of central importance to an understanding of the permissive society.• We live in a permissive society.• Confusion and uncertainty are the majorcharacteristics of the permissive societyaccording to the conservative-historians.• For he grew up before the permissive society and remembers his adolescence.• The permissive society of the 60's and 70's was not yet dreamed of.