Laxity (noun)
lak-sit-ee
Lack of strictness or care.
Late Middle English (in the sense ‘loose’, said of the bowels): from Latin laxus.
Example sentences
“She displayed a certain laxity for discipline.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
