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laxity /ˈlaksɪti /noun [mass noun]1Lack of strictness or care: the result of such fiscal laxity is a budget deficit laxity of discipline...- The right to divorce is not a right to sexual laxity.
- More stringency on the part of the regulators would go some way to undermining the comparative monetary laxity now established by the Fed.
- Our animal friends are benefiting from the relative laxity of federal veterinary regulations.
2Looseness of a limb or muscle: over-stretching can result in joint laxity...- Improvement in skin laxity was observed in the majority of patients.
- Because of connective tissue laxity, care should be taken in the degree of stretching.
- Thirty patients with mild-to-moderate cheek laxity and 20 with neck laxity received one treatment from the device.
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