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Laxity vs Lethargic - What's the difference?

laxity | lethargic |

As a noun laxity

is the state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.

As an adjective lethargic is

sluggish, slow.

laxity

English

Noun

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

    • lethargic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * lethargick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • sluggish, slow
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VII , passage=[That cat] hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep. Lethargic is the word that springs to the lips. If you cast an eye on him, you will see that he's asleep now.}}
  • indifferent, apathetic

    • Synonyms

    * torpid * lazy * unmoving

    Related terms

    * alethic, alethiology, philalethia * lethargy * Lethe