- 1鬆懈；不嚴謹（指標準、紀律不夠嚴，不是身體放鬆）
Laxity is when people are not strict enough — about rules, work, safety, or how they should behave. If a school shows laxity, teachers let bad things slide. If a company shows laxity on safety, someone may get hurt. It is a rather formal, written word; in speech people more often say they are too slack, or not careful enough. It is almost always a criticism. Though actually, a little laxity can sound almost kind — they were not hard about the deadline — but in news and reports it usually means someone failed in their duty.
組成Borrowed from Middle French laxité, from Latin laxitas, from laxus (“loose”). By surface analysis, lax + -ity.
同家族的字
- laxthe adjective; laxity is lax + -ity
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
laxitynoun/ˈlaksɪti/
- 1
The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.
- 2
Moral looseness; lack of rigorousness or strictness.
- In these days of laxity, and anythingism in religion, even those of whom we might hope better things do not appear exercised, with the apostle Paul, to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men.
- It is no accident that capital punishment is reentering our society on the wave of the conservative reaction to the permissiveness and laxity of the past two decades.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。