laxness

Other forms of laxness

plural

laxnesses·

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 laxness

What does laxness mean?

laxness means "the quality of being lax and neglectful". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in laxness?

laxness has 2 syllables: lax-ness. The stress falls on "lax".

What is another word for laxness?

Close synonyms include laxity, remissness, slackness, laxity. 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 laxness a common word?

laxness 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.