Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LAX'I-TY
LAX'I-TY, n. [L. laxitas.]
- Looseness; slackness; the opposite of tenseness or tension.
- Looseness of texture. – Bentley.
- Want of exactness or precision; as, laxity of expression.
- Looseness; defect of exactness; as, laxity of morals.
- Looseness, as of the intestines; the opposite of costiveness.
- Openness; not closeness.
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