"looseness" in the noun sense
1. diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels, looseness
frequent and watery bowel movements can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
2. looseness
freedom from restraint
"the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made"
3. looseness
a lack of strict accuracy laxity of practice
"misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression"
4. looseness
the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints
5. looseness, play
movement or space for movement
"there was too much play in the steering wheel"
6. profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness
dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
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