Laxness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Laxness \Lax"ness\, n.
     The state of being lax; laxity.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  laxness
       n : the quality of being lax and neglectful [syn: {laxity}, {remissness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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