looseness

Meanings

• frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
• freedom from restraint
  • "the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made"
• a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice
  • "misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression"
• the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints
• movement or space for movement
• dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
• make loose or looser
• make less severe or strict
• become less severe or strict
• disentangle and raise the fibers of
• cause to become loose
• make less dense
• become loose or looser or less tight

Synonyms

diarrhea, diarrhoea, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, loose, loosen, looseness of the bowels, play, profligacy, relax, tease, tease apart, undo, untie