Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being lax.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being lax; looseness; slackness; want of material firmness, tension, or coherence.
- noun Relaxedness; want of retentiveness: as, laxity of the bowels.
- noun Slackness of force or energy; lack of vigor or strictness; weakness; remissness.
- noun Openness; roominess.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being lax; lack of tenseness, strictness, or exactness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
lax ;looseness , lack of tension. - noun Moral looseness; lack of
rigorousness orstrictness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the condition of being physiologically lax
- noun the quality of being lax and neglectful
Etymologies
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Examples
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This laxity is nothing but a way to encourage these people to commit heinous acts.
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Some even suggest that this laxity is deliberate and that the enormously wealthy narco dealers may have gotten to the inspectors.
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This laxity is being forced out of the supposed national-religious camp by the ‘hardalim’.
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Some even suggest that this laxity is deliberate and that the enormously wealthy narco dealers may have gotten to the inspectors.
High hopes, baffling uncertainty: Mexico nears the millennium 2008
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Some even suggest that this laxity is deliberate and that the enormously wealthy narco dealers may have gotten to the inspectors.
High hopes, baffling uncertainty: Mexico nears the millennium 2008
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This laxity is being forced out of the supposed national-religious camp by the ‘hardalim’.
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For a QC who has been a Law Officer, this suggests a certain laxity of control over her campaign.
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Another priest could easily have taken twice as long, perhaps taking time to admonish the brother-grooms whose ages belied a certain laxity in regard to their faith.
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Another priest could easily have taken twice as long, perhaps taking time to admonish the brother-grooms whose ages belied a certain laxity in regard to their faith.
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For a QC who has been a Law Officer, this suggests a certain laxity of control over her campaign.
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