Laxism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    laxity (in interpreting or enforcing a rule) uncountable

    "The Jesuits were sometimes accused of moral laxism."

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"The Jesuits were sometimes accused of moral laxism."

Etymology

From lax + -ism.

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