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laxity

[ UK /lˈæksɪti/ ]
[ US /ˈɫæksəti/ ]
NOUN
  1. the condition of being physiologically lax
    baths can help the laxness of the bowels
  2. the quality of being lax and neglectful

How To Use laxity In A Sentence

  • The looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion.
  • Laxity of the skin after distention is often seen in multipara, both in the breasts and in the abdominal walls, and also from obesity, but in all such cases the skin falls in folds, and does not have a normal appearance like that of the true ` ` elastic-skin man. '' Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • This laxity is being forced out of the supposed national-religious camp by the ‘hardalim’. 17 « November « 2008 « Niqnaq
  • Never confuse natural informality with a license for laxity.
  • By the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, moral laxity in the administration of confession by the clergy was evident.
  • Impatience with ethical laxity is common to all the TV judges.
  • The effect of facial paralysis with loss of muscle and skin tone in the elderly patient leads to laxity or ectropion of the lower lid.
  • Now, I grant that, generally, the major includes the minor; and a man's being able to read is _prima facie_ evidence that he knows his letters; yet it is possible that the modern many-times-great-grandson may indulge in as much laxity respecting _letters_, as his ancestor did with regard to _words_. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 Volume 18, New Series, October 23, 1852
  • I have been diagnosed with prostate cancer that was discovered very late due to my laxity in caring for my health.
  • Laxity of the skin after distention is often seen in multipara, both in the breasts and in the abdominal walls, and also from obesity, but in all such cases the skin falls in folds, and does not have a normal appearance like that of the true "elastic-skin man. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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