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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
etc.
(loquacity)
584;
looseness.
Polylogy†,
tautology,
battology†,
perissology†;
pleonasm,
exuberance,
redundancy;
thrice-told tale;
prolixity;
circumlocution,
ambages†;
periphrase†,
periphrasis;
roundabout phrases;
episode;
expletive;
pennya-lining;
richness
etc.
577.
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Roget 47:
nonadhesion†;
immiscibility;
incoherence;
looseness
etc.
adj.;
laxity;
relaxation;
loosening
etc.
v.;
freedom;
disjunction
etc.
44;
rope of sand.
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Dutch: afgang, kakkerij, buikloop, diarree
Polish: laksacja, biegunka, rozwolnienie
2 looseness
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;
loosening
etc.
v.;
remission;
dead letter,
brutum fulmen [Lat.],
misrule;
license,
licentiousness;
insubordination
etc.
(disobedience)
742;
lynch law
etc.
(illegality)
964;
nihilism,
reign of violence.
[Deprivation of power]
dethronement,
deposition,
usurpation,
abdication.
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Moby thesaurus: Bohemianism, affability, allowance, amorphousness, approximation, bagginess, blobbiness, blowziness, blurriness, broadness, carelessness, casualness, chambering, chintziness, common touch, cordiality, culpa, culpable negligence, default, dereliction, deviation, disorder, disregard, dowdiness, ease, easiness, easy virtue, easygoingness, failure, familiarity, flabbiness, flaccidity, flaccidness, floppiness, fogginess, folksiness, frowziness, frumpishness, fuzziness, generality, graciousness, grubbiness, haziness, homeliness, homeyness, ill-definedness, impotence, imprecision, inaccuracy, inaccurateness, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inchoateness, incoherence, incorrectness, indecisiveness, indefinableness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, indifference, indistinctness, inexactitude, inexactness, informality, informalness, irregularity, laches, laissez-faire, lapse, laxation, laxity, laxness, leniency, lightness, limpness, loose morals, loosening, messiness, mistiness, naturalness, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, nonfeasance, noninterference, nonperformance, nonrestriction, obscuration, obscurity, offhandedness, omission, overindulgence, overlooking, overpermissiveness, oversight, permissiveness, plainness, poor stewardship, predictable error, probable error, procrastination, promiscuity, relaxation, relaxedness, remissness, ricketiness, rubberiness, seediness, shabbiness, shakiness, shapelessness, shoddiness, simplicity, slackness, slatternliness, sleeping around, slight, slipshodness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slovenry, sluttishness, sociability, softness, sordidness, squalidness, squalor, standard deviation, sweepingness, swinging, tackiness, tawdriness, tolerance, unaffectedness, unceremoniousness, unclearness, unconstrainedness, unconstraint, unconventionality, uncorrectness, unfactualness, unneatness, unpreciseness, unpretentiousness, unrestraint, unrigorousness, untidiness, vagueness, wantonness, waywardness, weakness, whorishness ... show more.
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