looseness

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noun

1. frequent and watery bowel movements;
can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
• Syn:
diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels
• Derivationally related forms:
loose, diarrhoetic (for: diarrhoea), diarrhoeal (for: diarrhoea), diarrhetic (for: diarrhea), diarrheal (for: diarrhea)
• Hypernyms:
symptom
• Hyponyms:
the shits, the trots, Montezuma's revenge
• Part Holonyms:
dysentery
2. freedom from restraint
- the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made
• Derivationally related forms:
loose
• Hypernyms:
unrestraint
3. a lack of strict accuracy;
laxity of practice
- misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression
• Derivationally related forms:
loose
• Hypernyms:
inaccuracy
4. the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints
• Ant:
fixedness
• Derivationally related forms:
loose
• Hypernyms:
movability, movableness
5. movement or space for movement
- there was too much play in the steering wheel
• Syn:
play
• Ant:
tightness
• Derivationally related forms:
play (for: play), loose
• Hypernyms:
movability, movableness
• Hyponyms:
wiggliness, slack, slackness
6. dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
• Syn:
profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness
• Derivationally related forms:
loose, licentious (for: licentiousness), dissipate (for: dissipation)
• Hypernyms:
intemperance, intemperateness, self-indulgence

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, play, diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  tightness, tautness, fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, secureness