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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
looseness is a noun meaning "frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor". It carries 6 recorded senses.
frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
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”
the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints
movement or space for movement
“there was too much play in the steering wheel”
dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for looseness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.