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Laity vs Laxity - What's the difference?

laity | laxity |

As nouns the difference between laity and laxity

is that laity is people of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics while laxity is the state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.

laity

English

Noun

(laities)
  • people of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics.
  • the common man or woman
  • the unlearned, untrained or ignorant as in “The Layman’s Guide to Basket Weaving”

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    laxity

    English

    Noun

    (laxities)
  • The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.
  • Moral looseness; lack of rigorousness or strictness.