Synonyms:
laxness, laxity, remissness, slackness
Meaning: the quality of being lax and neglectful
Synonyms:
laxness, laxity
Meaning: the condition of being physiologically lax; "baths can help the laxness of the bowels"
Usage examples
And therefore let us put an end to such tales, lest they engender laxity of morals among the young.
The religious wars had led to laxity and carelessness; drunkenness and vice were fearfully prevalent.
He had never yet heard a young girl express herself in just this fashion; never, at least, save in cases where to say such things seemed a kind of demonstrative evidence of a certain laxity of deportment.
Even when discipline did not accrue as matter of fact, when the pupil even grew in laxity of application and lost power of intelligent self-direction, the fault lay with him, not with the study or the methods of teaching.
Now and again under some ruler of more humanity or of greater laxity than others their condition may be said to have for the time improved, but such changes were far too slight and their possible duration always far too uncertain for these benefits to be more to the people than as the grateful but passing pleasure a fleeting morning cloud brings to the traveller in a sunburnt desert.