LAX'ITY, noun [Latin laxitas.] 1. Looseness; slackness; the opposite of tenseness or tension. 2. Looseness of texture. 3. Want of exactness or precision; as laxity of expression. 4. Looseness; defect of exactness; as laxity of morals. 5. Looseness, as of the bowels; the opposite of costiveness. 6. Openness; not closeness.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI