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laxity

[lak-si-tee]

noun

the state or quality of being lax; looseness.

Origin:
1520–30; < Latin laxitās wideness, openness. See lax, -ity

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lax (læks)

—*adj*
1.	lacking firmness; not strict
2.	lacking precision or definition
3.	not taut
4.	phonetics (of a speech sound) pronounced with little muscular effort and consequently having relatively imprecise accuracy of articulation and little temporal duration. In English the vowel i in bit is lax
5.	(of flower clusters) having loosely arranged parts

[C14 (originally used with reference to the bowels): from Latin laxus loose]

'laxly

—*adv*

'laxity

—n

'laxness

—n

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