permissiveness

permissiveness
    n 1: a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior [syn:
         {permissiveness}, {tolerance}] [ant: {restrictiveness},
         {unpermissiveness}]
    

92 Moby Thesaurus words for "permissiveness":
      abandon, abandonment, carelessness, charitableness, charity,
      coddling, condonation, connivance, cosseting, culpa,
      culpable negligence, default, dereliction, disregard, easiness,
      easygoingness, failure, favoring, forbearance, generousness,
      gratification, humoring, immoderacy, impotence, imprecision,
      inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, incontinence,
      indifference, indiscipline, indulgence, intemperance,
      irrepressibility, laches, laissez-faire, lapse, laxity, laxness,
      lenience, leniency, lenity, licentiousness, long-suffering,
      looseness, loosening, magnanimity, mollycoddling, neglect,
      neglectfulness, negligence, noncoercion, nonfeasance,
      noninterference, nonintimidation, nonperformance, nonrestriction,
      obliging, omission, overindulgence, overlooking,
      overpermissiveness, oversight, pampering, patience, pleasing,
      poor stewardship, procrastination, relaxation, relaxedness,
      remissness, riotousness, slackness, slight, sloppiness, softness,
      spoiling, sufferance, tolerance, toleration, unconstraint,
      uncontrol, uninhibitedness, unreserve, unrestraint, unrigorousness,
      unruliness, unstrictness, wantonness, weakness, wildness,
      winking