English noun: looseness |
1. | looseness (state) 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 |
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| Broader (hypernym) | symptom |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Montezuma's revenge, the shits, the trots |
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| Part meronym | dysentery |
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2. | looseness (attribute) freedom from restraint |
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| Samples | The flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made.
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| Broader (hypernym) | unrestraint |
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3. | looseness (attribute) a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice |
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| Samples | Misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression.
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| Broader (hypernym) | inaccuracy |
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4. | looseness (attribute) the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints |
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| Broader (hypernym) | movability, movableness |
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| Antonyms | fixity, fastness, fixedness, secureness, fixture |
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5. | looseness (attribute) movement or space for movement |
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| Samples | There was too much play in the steering wheel.
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| Synonyms | play |
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| Broader (hypernym) | movability, movableness |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | slack, slackness, wiggliness |
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| Antonyms | tautness, tightness |
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6. | looseness (act) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure |
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| Synonyms | dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, profligacy |
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| Broader (hypernym) | intemperance, intemperateness, self-indulgence |
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