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laxity

noun
/ˈlaksɪti/UK

Etymology

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

  1. derived from laxitas
  2. borrowed from laxité

Definitions

  1. The state of being lax

    The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.

  2. Moral looseness

    Moral looseness; lack of rigorousness or strictness.

    • 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.
    • It is no accident that capital punishment is reentering our society on the wave of the conservative reaction to the permissiveness and laxity of the past two decades.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA