The state or quality of being lax.
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laxity
noun
- The state or quality of being negligent: laxness, negligence, remissness, slackness. See careful/careless.
Sports Science and Medicine:
laxity
Looseness or slackness of the muscles and soft tissue surrounding a joint. Symptomatic looseness is called instability.
Veterinary Dictionary:
laxity
Looseness. Used to describe the hyperextensibility of skin, and sometimes joints, in cutaneous asthenia and ehlers–danlos syndrome.
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laxity
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
the quality of being lax and neglectful
Synonyms: laxness, remissness
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 | Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2007. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Read more |
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| Thesaurus. Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Read more |
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| Sports Science and Medicine. The Oxford Dictionary of Sports Science & Medicine. Copyright © Michael Kent 1998, 2006, 2007. All rights reserved. Read more |
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| Veterinary Dictionary. Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary 3rd Edition. Copyright © 2007 by D.C. Blood, V.P. Studdert and C.C. Gay, Elsevier. All rights reserved. Read more |
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| WordNet. WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Read more |
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