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permissiveness

How many syllables in permissiveness?

  4 syllables

Divide permissiveness into syllables:   per-mis-sive-ness
How to say permissiveness:

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Synonyms for permissiveness


2 syllables
  • laxness
    3 syllables
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    4 syllables
    5 syllables
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