n.
The state or quality of being lax.
laxity
Dictionary:
lax·i·ty (lăk'sĭ-tē)  |
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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.
| WordNet: 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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