ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Overpermissiveness

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Overpermissiveness is a noun meaning Excessive permissiveness; the quality of being overpermissive.

Meaning

Excessive permissiveness; the quality of being overpermissive.

Example Sentences

The results (Klatskin, Jackson, and Wilkin, 1956 ) showed that sleep disturbances were related to maternal overpermissiveness in the sleep area.
Among the reactions with which the child must learn to cope are overprotectiveness, overpermissiveness, anger or embarrassment, and rejection by society.
Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overfreedom, overleniency, overlaxity, overlaxness, overeffusiveness, overageness.

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