Indulgence vs Permissiveness - What's the difference?
indulgence | permissiveness | Synonyms |
the act of indulging
* Hammond
tolerance
catering to someone's every desire
something in which someone indulges
An indulgent act; favour granted; gratification.
* Rogers
(Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 555:
(Roman Catholic Church ) to provide with an indulgence
The relative likelihood of something or someone to grant permission or allow something to happen.
:The permissiveness of campus life leads many college freshmen to try things they would never have experienced at home.
As nouns the difference between indulgence and permissiveness
is that indulgence is the act of indulging while permissiveness is the relative likelihood of something or someone to grant permission or allow something to happen.As a verb indulgence
is (Roman Catholic Church) to provide with an indulgence.indulgence
English
Noun
(en noun)- They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less.
- If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.
- To understand how indulgences were intended to work depends on linking together a number of assumptions about sin and the afterlife, each of which individually makes considerable sense.