noun
- Frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor.
- synonyms: diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels
- Freedom from restraint.
- usage: "the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made"
- A lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice.
- usage: "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.
- usage: "there was too much play in the steering wheel"
- synonyms: play
- Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure.
- synonyms: profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness
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