Permission vs Admittance - What's the difference?
permission | admittance |
authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
The act of permitting.
(computing) flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.
The act of admitting.
Permission to enter, the power or right of entrance.
Actual entrance, reception.
(euphemistic, hypocoristic) The vulva, especially the labia majora.
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, He tries again, still no admittance , still no penetration; but he had hurt me yet more, whilst my extreme love made me bear extreme pain, almost without a groan. }}
(British, legal) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
(physics) The reciprocal of impedance
As nouns the difference between permission and admittance
is that permission is authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority) while admittance is the act of admitting.permission
English
Noun
- Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?
- I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission .