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looseness

noun

1 looseness

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

synonyms: diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels.

Roget 573: diffuseness etc. adj.; amplification etc. v.; dilating etc. v.; verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum [Lat.]; flow of words ... show more

Roget 47: nonadhesion; immiscibility; incoherence; looseness etc. adj.; laxity; relaxation; loosening etc. v.; freedom; disjunction ... show more

Dutch: afgang, kakkerij, buikloop, diarree
Polish: laksacja, biegunka, rozwolnienie

2 looseness

Freedom from restraint.

3 looseness

A lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice.

4 looseness

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

5 looseness

Movement or space for movement.

synonym: play.

6 looseness

Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure.

synonyms: dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, profligacy.

Roget 738: laxity; laxness, looseness, slackness; toleration etc. (lenity) 740; freedom etc. 748.    anarchy, interregnum; relaxation; ... show more


Moby thesaurus: Bohemianism, affability, allowance, amorphousness, approximation, bagginess, blobbiness, blowziness, blurriness, broadness, carelessness, casualness, chambering, chintziness, common touch, cordiality, culpa, culpable negligence, default, dereliction ... show more.

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