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Looseness Common

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Looseness has 7 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor

2

freedom from restraint

"the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made"

3

a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice

"misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression"

4

the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints

5

movement or space for movement

"there was too much play in the steering wheel"

6

dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure

7

The quality or fact of being free from rigidity, attachment or restraint; not tight, not firmly attached or taut.

Example Sentences
"the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made" noun
"misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression" noun
"there was too much play in the steering wheel" noun
Related Terms
Antonyms
fixity tautness
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
symptom unrestraint inaccuracy movability intemperance
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
the shits Montezuma's revenge wiggliness slack
Rhyming Words
ess 1ess ress ness tess hess kess wess jess fess yess sess less bess cess mess guess 1aess gless cress
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