Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LAX'I-TY, n. [L. laxitas.]

1. Looseness; slackness; the opposite of tenseness or tension.
2. Looseness of texture. – Bentley.
3. Want of exactness or precision; as, laxity of expression.
4. Looseness; defect of exactness; as, laxity of morals.
5. Looseness, as of the intestines; the opposite of costiveness.
6. Openness; not closeness.