laxness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
laxness
    n 1: the quality of being lax and neglectful [syn: {laxness},
         {laxity}, {remissness}, {slackness}]
    2: the condition of being physiologically lax; "baths can help
       the laxness of the bowels" [syn: {laxness}, {laxity}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Laxness \Lax"ness\, n.
   The state of being lax; laxity.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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

    

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