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laxity

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


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    The state or quality of being negligent: laxness, negligence, remissness, slackness. See careful/careless.

Looseness or slackness of the muscles and soft tissue surrounding a joint. Symptomatic looseness is called instability.

Looseness. Used to describe the hyperextensibility of skin, and sometimes joints, in cutaneous asthenia and ehlers–danlos syndrome.

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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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