laxity

The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.countableuncountable

Moral looseness; lack of rigorousness or strictness.countableuncountable

• In these days of laxity, and anythingism in religion, even those of whom we might hope better things do not appear exercised, with the apostle Paul, to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men.
• It is no accident that capital punishment is reentering our society on the wave of the conservative reaction to the permissiveness and laxity of the past two decades.