Search Result:looseness
Overview of noun looseness
The noun looseness has 6 senses
- 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)
- looseness -- (freedom from restraint; "the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made")
- looseness -- (a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice; "misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression")
- looseness -- (the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints)
- looseness, play -- (movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel")
- profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness -- (dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure)