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UK
/lˈuːsnəs/
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NOUN
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
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movement or space for movement
there was too much play in the steering wheel - frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
- the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints
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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
How To Use looseness In A Sentence
- It's painterly, in fact - the correctness of the drawing and the looseness and liveliness of the assembly work together to make the sculptures live.
- The comparatively high thermal expansivity of aluminium leads to looseness unless the steel has a similar coefficient of expansion.
- It's the looseness of the term ‘family’ that gives the politicians - and the rest of us - some room.
- Staked-and-centered cardan universal joints eliminate unwanted looseness and provide a smoother, high-speed dynamic performance. FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten
- a Puritan chronicler, whose book _The Anatomy of Abuses_ is a valuable aid to the study of Tudor social history, and Harrison, whose description of England prefaces Holinshed's Chronicles, both deal in detail with the Italian menace, and condemn in good set terms the costliness in dress and the looseness in morals which they laid to its charge. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge
- We always seem to be digging through the layers of Taaffe's paintings for new meanings, here evidenced by a new looseness and painterliness.
- Our babbling, anile friend, in the very looseness of her prating has let out the truth. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841
- The flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made.
- On the sixteenth, looseness of the bowels from a stimulant clyster; afterwards she passed her drink, nor could retain anything, for she was completely insensible; skin parched and tense. Of The Epidemics
- Based on bolt looseness broken analysis for railway wagon core plate, puts forward the preventive measures.