Usually means: Looseness or slackness; lack of strictness.
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  1. laxity: Merriam-Webster
  2. laxity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. laxity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. laxity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. laxity: Wiktionary
  9. laxity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. laxity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. laxity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. laxity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  18. laxity: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  20. Laxity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (laxity)

▸ noun:  The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.
▸ noun:  Moral looseness; lack of rigorousness or strictness.

Similar:
laxness, remissness, laxativeness, laxism, slackness, loosness, looseness, easiness, lackadaisicalness, relaxedness, more...

Opposite:
rigor, strictness, precision, tightness, exactness

Phrases:
hip laxity, Ligamentous laxity, more...

Adjectives:
moral, joint, ligamentous, general, great, sexual, certain, much, extreme, generalized, excessive

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Similar:
laxness, remissness, laxativeness, laxism, slackness, loosness, looseness, easiness, lackadaisicalness, relaxedness, more...

Opposite:
rigor, strictness, precision, tightness, exactness

Phrases:
hip laxity, Ligamentous laxity, more...

Adjectives:
moral, joint, ligamentous, general, great, sexual, certain, much, extreme, generalized, excessive

Colors:
    pale blue,     light gray,     soft lavender,     muted beige,     pastel pink, more...



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