Crossword clues for laxity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Laxity \Lax"i*ty\ (l[a^]ks"[i^]*t[y^]), n. [L. laxitas, fr. laxus loose, slack: cf. F. laxit['e], See Lax, a.] The state or quality of being lax; lack of tenseness, strictness, or exactness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from Middle French laxité, from Latin laxitatem (nominative laxitas) "width, spaciousness," from laxus (see lax).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension. 2 Moral looseness; lack of rigorousness or strictness.
WordNet
n. the quality of being lax and neglectful [syn: laxness, remissness]
Usage examples of "laxity".
At the two opposite poles of conscientious rectitude are laxity and scruples, one judging all things lawful, the other all things forbidden.
Then, this sort of a conscience is not habitually certain, and laxity consists precisely in contemning doubts and passing over lurking, lingering suspicions as not worthy of notice.
Tax extortion, bribery, political machinations, personality cults, and moral laxity abounded.
Incensed by this laxity, the constable - backed only by some of the inhabitants - breaks into the home of one of the more egregious thugs and expels or kills him.
Some of them were headed for real trouble, for there had been too much laxity with no Lord Foxbridge present to give authority to the lazy, craven constable.
The Iron Fox had ordered that her bloody footprints not be scrubbed away from the passage floors, so as to serve as ever-present reminders of the reward awaiting laxity and disobedience.
The laxity of modern life, by comparison is, I think, somewhat appalling.
Larry judged that there was no dishonesty on the part of the agents, only laxity, and an easy adherence to the methods of their earlier years when there had not been so much competition nor so many building laws.
Many brave warriors died unworthy deaths due to their laxity in reporting.
He flattered himself that the civil indifference of his manner, the abstract character of the topics he selected, the irrelevancy of his allusions and the laxity of his attention, all contributed to this result.
This unfortunate event is yet another example of the laxity of our present social services, and the need for improved legislation to increase protection for children at risk.
There was unbelievable laxity in the morality of the kids, but it was still tied up inextricably with the mores of the times.
Even the laxity of divorce regulations in the early years of the revolution was undoubtedly a revulsion from the nineteenth-century Victorian immobility of marriage and the consequent hypocrisy that developed from it.
She had done the wrong thing by permitting Don to indulge in taboo stimulants, and she intended to make up for her laxity in every way she could.
Of course the indolent indulgence in this laxity robs style of all grace and power.