laxity

CEFRC1

/ˈlaksɪti/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A lack of strictness, care, or control.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Moral looseness; lack of rigorousness or strictness.

Examples

  • The inspection revealed extreme laxity in the safety rules.

  • Laxity in the joint caused pain.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
3
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meaning

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

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In context

  • Muscle laxity is a concern.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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