laxity


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lax/laks/
adjective
  • 1 not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful.
  • 2 (of the limbs or muscles) relaxed.
  • 3 Phonetics (of a speech sound, especially a vowel) pronounced with the vocal muscles relaxed. The opposite of tense1.
– derivatives
laxity noun,
laxly adverb,
laxness noun.
– origin ME: from L. laxus.
'laxity' also found in these Oxford entries:
lax

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