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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the quality of being lax and neglectful;
[syn: laxness, laxity, remissness, slackness]

2. the condition of being physiologically lax;
- Example: "baths can help the laxness of the bowels"
[syn: laxness, laxity]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Laxness \Lax"ness\, n. The state of being lax; laxity. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

laxness n 1: the quality of being lax and neglectful [syn: laxness, laxity, remissness, slackness] 2: the condition of being physiologically lax; "baths can help the laxness of the bowels" [syn: laxness, laxity]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

97 Moby Thesaurus words for "laxness": Fabian policy, Micawberism, abandon, abandonment, acceptance, backwardness, bagginess, clemency, clementness, compassion, culpa, culpable negligence, default, dereliction, dilatoriness, disregard, easiness, easygoingness, failure, flabbiness, flaccidity, flaccidness, floppiness, forbearance, forbearing, gentleness, hesitation, hold-off, humaneness, humanity, immoderacy, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, incontinence, indiscipline, intemperance, irrepressibility, laches, laissez-faire, lapse, laxation, laxity, lenience, leniency, lenientness, lenity, licentiousness, limpness, looseness, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, moderateness, mugwump, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, noncoercion, nonfeasance, noninterference, nonintimidation, nonperformance, nonrestriction, omission, overlooking, oversight, patience, permissiveness, pity, poor stewardship, procrastination, relaxation, remissness, ricketiness, riotousness, rubberiness, shakiness, slackness, slight, sloppiness, slowness, softness, stall, temporization, tenderness, tolerance, unconstraint, uncontrol, uninhibitedness, unreserve, unrestraint, unrigorousness, unruliness, unstrictness, wantonness, wildness