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What is the noun for laxity?

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laxity
  1. The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.
  2. Moral looseness; lack of rigorousness or strictness.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The laxity of control authorities has exacerbated the problem.”
      “The laxity in dealing with the food problem are matters upon which extreme dissatisfaction exists in Ireland.”
      “They objected to the religious laxity of the sultan and ran afoul with him.”
laxation
  1. The act of loosening or slackening, or the state of being loosened or slackened.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The median time to laxation was approximately 30 minutes after administration of methylnaltrexone.”
      “Neither study was designed to assess the impacts of daily laxation treatment.”
      “Those patients treated by conventional means eventually produced laxation after a further 3 to 5 days.”
laxing
  1. (phonetics) The process whereby a tense vowel becomes lax.
laxness
  1. The property of being lax, lacking strictness.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There was a certain laxness in safety preparations that made the fire worse.”
      “Only a dolt would think that boasting of obeying the rules might minimize the public's sense of outrage when it is the laxness of the rules themselves that occasions so much anger.”
      “Barring that brief flirtation with laxness during the second half, Hibs were efficiency personified.”
laxist
  1. (theology) Someone promoting lax views or relaxed interpretations of something.
laxism
  1. laxity (in interpreting or enforcing a rule)
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Jesuits were sometimes accused of moral laxism.”
      “Shipments of irradiated German fuel to La Hague were suspended in 1998, after a certain laxism in some of the procedures was revealed.”
      “The consequences of this laxism were inevitable: a real estate bubble, overheating and an artificial improvement in living standards.”
lax
lax
laxations
  1. plural of laxation
laxnesses
laxists
  1. plural of laxist
laxities
laxes
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