permissible - permissive

permissible - permissive
'permissible'
If something is permissible, you are allowed to have it or do it, because it does not break any rules, laws, or conventions.

Pictures of your pets are quite permissible.

I understood that it was permissible to ask a question.

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'permissive'
A permissive society or person tolerates things which some people disapprove of, especially freedom of sexual behaviour.

We live in a permissive age.

This opened the way for local branches of the Church to take a more permissive attitude.

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Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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