The action of loosening or relaxing; the state of being loosened or relaxed; occasionally an instance or means of relaxing, a laxative application.

The action of relax, v.; an instance of this.

Looseness, irretentiveness (of the bowels, etc.); slackness, want of tension (in the muscular or nervous fibres, etc.).

The quality of being lax; laxity. in physical senses.

The state of being relaxed; an instance of this.