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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
- The looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion.
- The only real fault of the book is its looseness of structure.
- misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression
- This paper analyzes the reason of screw - thread looseness and provides the measure and method of looseness - proof.
- Very shrewd observations are to be found in his reviews, for instance his indication, in reviewing La Touche's _Fragoletta_, of that common fault of ambitious novels, a sort of woolly and "ungraspable" looseness of construction and story, which constantly bewilders the reader as to what is going on. The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
- The effect of this looseness in the laws is to encourage hasty, incon - siderate marriages, and to make escape from an uncongenial partner so easy that the obligation to cultivate forbearance, and to acquire mutual adaptation, which may not at first exist, is wholly overlooked. Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
- But it was more than that, some kind of aversive, body-unfriendly habit, but also a desire for comfort that I thought was most achievable in looseness. Fashion Post 3: Tight
- We need to construct a different kind of politics, adapted to the real power but also to the characteristic looseness of hegemonic rule.
- The breadth and looseness of the recommendations are a dangerous precedent.
- The point is trivial, since she was six months old at the time of this first visit and obviously remembered nothing of it, but it indicates a certain looseness in brushwork. Twenty Letters to a Father