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LOOSENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
Synonyms:
dissipation; dissolution; licentiousness; looseness; profligacy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("looseness" is a kind of...):
intemperance; intemperateness; self-indulgence (excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence)
Derivation:
loose (casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Movement or space for movement
Example:
there was too much play in the steering wheel
Synonyms:
looseness; play
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("looseness" is a kind of...):
movability; movableness (the quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearranged)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "looseness"):
wiggliness (a jerky back and forth kind of mobility)
slack; slackness (the quality of being loose (not taut))
Antonym:
tightness (lack of movement or room for movement)
Derivation:
loose (not tense or taut)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("looseness" is a kind of...):
movability; movableness (the quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearranged)
Antonym:
fixedness (the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment)
Derivation:
loose (not affixed)
loose (not compact or dense in structure or arrangement)
loose (not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice
Example:
misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("looseness" is a kind of...):
inaccuracy (the quality of being inaccurate and having errors)
Derivation:
loose (not literal)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Freedom from restraint
Example:
the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("looseness" is a kind of...):
unrestraint (the quality of lacking restraint)
Derivation:
loose (lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
Synonyms:
diarrhea; diarrhoea; looseness; looseness of the bowels
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("looseness" is a kind of...):
symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "looseness"):
the shits; the trots (obscene terms for diarrhea)
Montezuma's revenge (diarrhea contracted in Mexico or Central America)
Holonyms ("looseness" is a part of...):
dysentery (an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea)
Derivation:
loose (emptying easily or excessively)
