looseness
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
looseness (plural loosenesses)
- 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.
- A relaxed state regarding principles or accuracy.
- Moral laxity; licentiousness.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:
- Yet goodly court he made still to his Dame, / Pourd out in loosnesse on the grassy grownd [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:
Translations
The property of being loose