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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈlaksɪti/

名詞

laxity (countable and uncountable, plural laxities)

1. The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.

   Synonym: laxness

2. Moral looseness; lack of rigorousness or strictness.
   • 1880, The Gospel standard, or Feeble Christian's support:

     In these days of laxity, and anythingism in religion, even those of whom we might hope better things do not appear exercised, with the apostle Paul, to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men.

   • 1981 April 5, Theodore Solotaroff, “REVIVING THE ANCIENT ART OF EXECUTION”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 22 September 2025:

     It is no accident that capital punishment is reentering our society on the wave of the conservative reaction to the permissiveness and laxity of the past two decades.

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