looseness

English

Etymology

From loose +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈluːsnəs/

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Noun

looseness (plural loosenesses)

1. The quality or fact of being free from rigidity, attachment or restraint; not tight, not firmly attached or taut.

   See if that nut has too much looseness and tighten it if it does.

2. A relaxed state regarding principles or accuracy.
3. Moral laxity; licentiousness.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Yet goodly court he made still to his Dame, / Pourd out in loosnesse on the grassy grownd [...].

Translations

The property of being loose

• Estonian: kobedus
• Finnish: löysyys (fi), löyhyys (fi)
• Ido: laxeso (io)
• Irish: liobairne f (of skin)
• Ottoman Turkish: گوشكلك (gevşeklik)
• Turkish: gevşeklik (tr)

Anagrams

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