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Permissive vs Yielding - What's the difference?

permissive | yielding | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between permissive and yielding

is that permissive is giving, or predisposed to give permission; lenient while yielding is docile, or inclined to give way to pressure.

As a verb yielding is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun yielding is

a concession.

permissive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Giving, or predisposed to give permission; lenient.

    • Anagrams

    * impressive ----

    yielding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Docile, or inclined to give way to pressure.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A concession.

    • Derived terms

    * overyielding