laxity

Other forms of laxity

plural

laxities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about laxity

What does laxity mean?

laxity means "the condition of being physiologically lax". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in laxity?

laxity has 3 syllables: lax-i-ty. The stress falls on "lax". In IPA it is /ˈlæksəti/.

What is another word for laxity?

Close synonyms include laxness, laxness, remissness, slackness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is laxity a common word?

laxity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.