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Laxity

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the quality of being lax and neglectful wordnet
  3. 3
    Moral looseness; lack of rigorousness or strictness. countable, uncountable

    "In these days of laxity, and anythingism in religion, even those of whom we might hope better things do not appear exercised, with the apostle Paul, to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men."

  4. 4
    the condition of being physiologically lax wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French laxité, itself borrowed from Latin laxitas, laxitatem, from laxus. By surface analysis, lax + -ity.

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