Slackness synonyms

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laxity
The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.
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laxness
The property of being lax, lacking strictness.
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negligence
(Law, uncountable) The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation.
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remissness
The characteristic of being remiss; carelessness; negligence; tardiness.
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lassitude
Lassitude is defined as a feeling of lethargy or a lack of mental or physical energy.
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lethargy
A lack of energy or vigor; sluggishness.
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insolence (related)
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imprudence (related)
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obstinacy (related)
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careful (related)
The state or quality of being negligent
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slack
(Countable) A tidal marsh or shallow, that periodically fills and drains.
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inanition
(Philosophy) A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to the Existentialist Philosophy state of "nausea".
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Find another word for slackness. In this page you can discover 12 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for slackness, like: laxity, laxness, negligence, remissness, lassitude, lethargy, insolence, imprudence, obstinacy, careful and slack.
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Slackness Sentence Examples

  • She was disappointed at first at the slackness of discipline, but she appears afterwards to have accommodated herself with tolerable success to the worldliness of her environment, though not without intervals of religious misgiving.

  • He merely corrects slackness or lack of doing justice (Si archiepiscopus defecerit in justitia exhibenda) and by his writ (precepto) directs the controversy to be determined in the metropolitan's court.

  • The main point seems to be a tendency to slackness, fatness and excess of humours.

  • They had left Murano owing to slackness of trade, but had been recalled, and appealed to the Council of Ten in Venice to be allowed to complete their contract in London.

  • This epistle was questioned from the first, and only gained its place with much hesitation, and rather through slackness of opposition than any conclusiveness of proof.

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