LAXISM Antonyms

• a branch of knowledge

• a system of rules of conduct or method of practice

• the trait of being well behaved

• training to improve strength or self-control

• the act of disciplining

• develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control

• punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience

• the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions

• the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses

• the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance

• excessive sternness

• a lack of physical flexibility

• the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe

• a moral maxim

• judgments about another person's morality

• the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending

• the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe

• used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

• something hard to endure

• extreme plainness

• excessive sternness

• conscientious attention to rules and details

• uncompromising resolution

• a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit

• conscientious attention to rules and details

• Strictness (in interpreting or enforcing a rule)

• In Roman Catholic moral theology, the doctrine that in a case of doubt between right and wrong one should take the safer course, i.e. the one in verbal accordance with the law.