laxity

[ lak-si-tee ]

/ ˈlæk sɪ ti /

the state or quality of being lax; looseness.

Origin of laxity

First recorded in 1520–30, laxity is from the Latin word laxitās wideness, openness. See lax, -ity

But it is not only small airlines that reflect the laxity of the system.

Who Will Get AsiaAir 8501’s Black Boxes? |Clive Irving |December 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
A revelation like that, combined with laxity in this Biogenesis investigation, would be damning in the extreme.

Major League Baseball Is Right to Punish the Biogenesis Cheats |Michael Brendan Dougherty |June 6, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The ban is part of a broader effort to dial back the legendary Dutch laxity on drug use.

Dutch May Ban Hash but Would Permit Dutch Cannabis Use To Continue |Nadette De Visser |March 1, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
A little reflection, however, shows us that that laxity is but apparent.

Nonsenseorship |G. G. Putnam and Others

Yet perchance I shall have cause not to be sorry for their laxity this once.

A Gentleman Player |Robert Neilson Stephens
Laxity means loss of power, and with loss of power the machine does not do as good work.

Dollars and Sense |Col. Wm. C. Hunter
Yet it is clear that, even intellectually, Nero was the worse for this laxity of training.

Seekers after God |Frederic William Farrar
Or perhaps they counted upon the rough and ready soldier as likely to countenance a large degree of laxity.

The History of Cuba, vol. 1 |Willis Fletcher Johnson