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laxity (n.)
1520s, from Middle French
laxité
, from Latin
laxitatem
(nominative
laxitas
) "width, spaciousness," from
laxus
"loose, lax" (see
lax
). An earlier noun was
laxation
(late 14c.).
Laxness
is from 1630s.
