LAX'ITY, n. [L. 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.