The difference between Lax and Permissive
When used as adjectives, lax means lenient and allowing for deviation, whereas permissive means giving permission, or predisposed to give it.
Lax is also noun with the meaning: a salmon.
check bellow for the other definitions of Lax and Permissive
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Lax as a noun (now, chiefly, UK, _, dialectal, Scotland):
A salmon.
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Lax as an adjective:
Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
Examples:
"The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend."
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Lax as an adjective:
Loose; not tight or taut.
Examples:
"The rope fell lax."
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Lax as an adjective:
Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
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Lax as an adjective (archaic):
Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
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Lax as an adjective (maths):
Describing an associative monoidal functor.
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Lax as a noun:
Lacrosse.
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Permissive as an adjective:
Giving permission, or predisposed to give it; lenient
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Permissive as an adjective (of a footpath):
open to the public by permission of the landowner
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Permissive as an adjective (biology):
That allows the replication of viruses