Permissiveness may refer to:
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Permissiveness (endocrinology)
In endocrinology, permissiveness is a biochemical phenomenon in which the presence of one hormone is required in order for another hormone to exert its full effects on a target cell. Hormones can interact in permissive, synergistic, or antagonistic ...
, between hormones and cells.
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Permissiveness (virology) {{Other uses, Permissiveness (disambiguation)
A permissive cell or permissive host is one that allows a virus to circumvent its defenses and replicate. Usually this occurs when the virus has modulated one or several of the host cellular intrinsic de ...
, between viruses and cells.
Permissive may refer to:
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Permissive society
A permissive society, also referred to as permissive culture, is used to describe a society in which social norms become increasingly liberal, especially with regard to sexual freedom and profanity. The term is often used pejoratively by cultur ...
, 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 {{Other uses, Permissiveness (disambiguation)
A permissive cell or permissive host is one that allows a virus to circumvent its defenses and replicate. Usually this occurs when the virus has modulated one or several of the host cellular intrinsic de ...
or permissive host, a cell which allows a virus to circumvent its defenses and replicate.
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Permissive mood
The permissive mood is a grammatical mood that indicates that the action is permitted by the speaker.
In Lithuanian
It is one of the optative mood forms that survived (archaic) in Lithuanian. It exists only in the 3rd person.Eugen HillStem Suppl ...
, 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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