Laxity
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English
Noun
Laxity (plural laxities)- The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.
- Moral looseness; lack of rigorousness or strictness.
Verbs for Laxity
avoid ; bear-; condemn—; contest—; drop—; elude—; encounter—; incur—; institute—; judge—; propose—; saddle with —; subpoena for—; support—; wrangle
Adjectives for Laxity
social; moral; parental.
Thesaurus
allowance, amorphousness, approximation, bagginess, blobbiness, blurriness, broadness, carelessness, chambering, culpa, culpable negligence, default, delinquency, dereliction, deviation, disconformity, disorder, disregard, easiness, easy virtue, easygoingness, failure, flabbiness, flaccidity, flaccidness, floppiness, fogginess, fuzziness, generality, haziness, ill-definedness, impotence, imprecision, inaccuracy, inaccurateness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inchoateness, incoherence, incorrectness, indecisiveness, indefinableness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, indifference, indistinctness, inexactitude, inexactness, inobservance, laches, laissez-faire, lapse, laxation, laxness, leniency, lightness, limpness, loose morals, looseness, loosening, mistiness, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, nonadherence, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity, nonfeasance, nonfulfillment, noninterference, nonobservance, nonperformance, nonrestriction, obscuration, obscurity, omission, overindulgence, overlooking, overpermissiveness, oversight, permissiveness, poor stewardship, predictable error, probable error, procrastination, promiscuity, relaxation, relaxedness, remissness, ricketiness, rubberiness, shakiness, shapelessness, slackness, sleeping around, slight, sloppiness, softness, standard deviation, sweepingness, swinging, tolerance, unclearness, uncorrectness, unfactualness, unobservance, unpreciseness, unrestraint, unrigorousness, vagueness, wantonness, waywardness, weakness, whorishness
Etymology
From French laxité, from Latin laxitatem, from laxus.
