Permissiveness may refer to:
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Permissiveness (endocrinology), between hormones and cells.
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Permissiveness (virology), between viruses and cells.
Permissive may refer to:
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Permissive society, a liberalization of social norms in a society.
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Permissive software license
A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections, carries only minimal restrictions on how the software can be used, modified, and redistributed, ...
, a free-software license.
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Permissive cell or permissive host, a cell which allows a virus to circumvent its defenses and replicate.
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Permissive mood, a
grammatical mood
In linguistics, grammatical mood is a grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality. That is, it is the use of verbal inflections that allow speakers to express their attitude toward what they are saying (for example, a statement ...
found in some languages.
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''Permissive'' (film), a 1970 British exploitation drama film.
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