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| NOUN | 1 | looseness, diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels | Frequent and watery bowel movements |
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| 2 | looseness | Freedom from restraint | |
| 3 | looseness | A lack of strict accuracy | |
| 4 | looseness | The quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints | |
| 5 | looseness, play | Movement or space for movement | |
| 6 | looseness, profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness | Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure |
| Meaning | Frequent and watery bowel movements. Can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor. |
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| Synonyms | diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels |
| Part of | dysentery |
| Broader | symptom |
| Narrower | the shits, the trots; Montezuma's revenge |
| Adjectives | loose; loose |
| Meaning | Freedom from restraint. |
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| Examples | "the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made" |
| Broader | unrestraint |
| Adjectives | loose; loose |
| Meaning | A lack of strict accuracy. Laxity of practice. |
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| Examples | "misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression" |
| Broader | inaccuracy |
| Adjectives | loose; loose |
| Meaning | The quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints. |
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| Contrary | fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, secureness |
| Broader | movability, movableness |
| Adjectives | loose; loose; loose; loose; loose; loose; loose; loose; loose |
| Meaning | Movement or space for movement. |
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| Synonyms | play |
| Contrary | tightness, tautness |
| Broader | movability, movableness |
| Narrower | wiggliness; slack, slackness |
| Adjectives | loose; loose |
| Meaning | Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure. |
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| Synonyms | profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness |
| Broader | intemperance, intemperateness, self-indulgence |
| Adjectives | loose; loose |
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