permissiveness vs acceptance

permissiveness and acceptance both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
permissiveness	Yes	No	No	No
acceptance	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, acceptance is a hyponym of permissiveness; that is, acceptance is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than permissiveness:

permissiveness: a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior
acceptance: a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations

Other hyponyms of permissiveness include sufferance, toleration, indulgence, lenience, leniency, overtolerance.

permissiveness (noun)	acceptance (noun)
a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior	the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
	the act of taking something that is offered
	a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations
	the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true
	(contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)
	a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank
	the state of being acceptable and accepted

permissiveness vs acceptance

permissiveness and acceptance both are nouns.

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