All laxness synonyms

noun laxness

• slackness — not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
• oversight — an omission or error due to carelessness: My bank statement is full of oversights.
• remissness — negligent, careless, or slow in performing one's duty, business, etc.: He's terribly remiss in his work.
• heedless — careless; thoughtless; unmindful: Heedless of the danger, he returned to the burning building to save his dog.
• inattention — lack of attention; negligence.
• thoughtlessness — lacking in consideration for others; inconsiderate; tactless: a thoughtless remark.
• laxity — the state or quality of being lax; looseness.
• forgetfulness — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• disregard — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• inattentive — not attentive; negligent.
• neglectful — characterized by neglect; disregardful; careless; negligent (often followed by of): neglectful of one's health.
• unpreparedness — the state of being prepared; readiness.
• carelessness — not paying enough attention to what one does: a careless typist.
• negligence — the quality, fact, or result of being negligent; neglect: negligence in discharging one's responsibilities.
• sloppily — muddy, slushy, or very wet: The field was a sloppy mess after the rain.
• heedlessness — The state or character of being heedless; inattention; carelessness; thoughtlessness.
• leniency — the quality or state of being lenient.
• tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
• permissiveness — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
• softness — yielding readily to touch or pressure; easily penetrated, divided, or changed in shape; not hard or stiff: a soft pillow.
• forbearance — the act of forbearing; a refraining from something.