permissive societynoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/pəˌmɪs.ɪv səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us/pɚˌmɪs.ɪv səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/mainly disapprovingthe type of society that has existed in most of Europe, Australia, and North America since the 1960s, in which there is a great amount of freedom of behaviour, especially sexual freedom
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Open-minded
- broad-minded
- enlightened
- freethinker
- inclusive
- liberal
- liberalize
- live
- live and let live idiom
- non-judgmental
- open mind
- open-minded
- receptive
- tolerance
- tolerant