looseness
- n frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
- n freedom from restraint
the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made - n a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice
misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression - n the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints
- n movement or space for movement
- n dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- v make loose or looser
- v make less severe or strict
- v become less severe or strict
- v disentangle and raise the fibers of
- v cause to become loose
- v make less dense
- v become loose or looser or less tight
- If there's a suggestion of paradox in those two achievements--a mixture of classiness and looseness, of discipline and danger, of dedication and recklessness--Winslet doesn't cop .
- When Sherwood Anderson wrote Winesburg, Ohio, he was trying, he said, to convey "a new looseness of lives flowing past each other.
- Some of the assembled savants were inclined to blame the new looseness on the movies ("That unmitigated evil") and cigarette smoking: "It is a biological fact that habitual .