laxity
Collocations
2LAXITY + NOUN
anythingism, morals
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.
Moral looseness; lack of rigorousness or strictness.
In these days of laxity, and anythingism in religion, even those of whom we might hope better things do not appear exercised, with the apostle Paul, to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men.
It is no accident that capital punishment is reentering our society on the wave of the conservative reaction to the permissiveness and laxity of the past two decades.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — the quality of being lax and neglectful
- laxness
- remissness
- slackness
noun — the condition of being physiologically lax
- laxness
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
3In these days of laxity, and anythingism in religion, even those of whom we might hope better things do not appear exercised, with the apostle Paul, to have always a conscience void of offence towards
WiktionaryIt is no accident that capital punishment is reentering our society on the wave of the conservative reaction to the permissiveness and laxity of the past two decades.
WiktionaryCorruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.
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