the condition of being physiologically lax; "baths can help the laxness of the bowels"
laxity
How to use laxity in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for laxity.
Editorial note
The laws as written are simply being enforced — with some laxity in many places.
Quick take
the condition of being physiologically lax; "baths can help the laxness of the bowels"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of laxity gathered in one view.
the quality of being lax and neglectful
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for laxity.
noun
the condition of being physiologically lax; "baths can help the laxness of the bowels"
See also: laxness
noun
the quality of being lax and neglectful
See also: laxness, remissness, slackness
Example sentences
The laws as written are simply being enforced — with some laxity in many places.
But the skew in the algorithms and the laxity regarding the rules also has a role to play.
Are the fines kept "low" in order to not scare businesses away from continued laxity?
If there's a bias in the hiring phase, there's likely to be similar laxity in the firing phase, too.
Once again, Stallman took it upon himself to correct what he saw as ethical laxity.
There is no laxity for meth, crack or pain killers, which I would assume account for these deaths--not marijuana.
I only worked 4 hours and my salaryman brain rebels against the sheer laxity!
This creates a certain amount of laxity in programmer's thinking.
People's laxity towards Apple's NDAs more or less reflects Apple's laxity in deciding whether to declare a piece of software is under NDA. I mean, the iPhone SDK was under one for months after it was released to the public.
There will always be some editing tasks that will require less rigid rules but I think we should value correctness by default and then introduce laxity in controlled ways where it makes sense.
The classification levels below "top secret" involve a laughable laxity.
They don't have any rights and as local monopolists of violence certainly don't have any expectation of laxity in others' vigilance.
Methodological laxity is particularly deadly in such challenging domains.
They deeply deplored the degeneracy of the times in which they lived, emphasising particularly the indifference to religion, the increasing materialism and the laxity of sexual morals.
Were contract law not so eager to allow liability in economic transactions to be waived, the licenses that absolved the code writers of any potential liability from bad code would not have induced an even greater laxity in what these code writers were producing.
It was famously attacked by the Catholic and Jansenist philosopher Pascal, during the formulary controversy against the Jesuits, in his Provincial Letters as the use of rhetorics to justify moral laxity, which became identified by the public with Jesuitism; hence the everyday use of the term to mean complex and sophistic reasoning to justify moral laxity.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use laxity in a sentence?
The laws as written are simply being enforced — with some laxity in many places.
What does laxity mean?
the condition of being physiologically lax; "baths can help the laxness of the bowels"
What part of speech is laxity?
laxity is commonly used as noun.