laxness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: lax=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

laxness, n. 

 The state of being lax; laxity.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

laxness

Laxity

N laxity, laxness, looseness, slackness, toleration, freedom, anarchy, interregnum, relaxation, loosening, remission, dead letter, brutum fulmen, misrule, license, licentiousness, insubordination, lynch law, nihilism, reign of violence, dethronement, deposition, usurpation, abdication, lax, loose, slack, remiss, weak, relaxed, licensed, reinless, unbridled, anarchical, unauthorized, adespotic.