Meaning of Looseness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality or fact of being free from rigidity, attachment or restraint; not tight, not firmly attached or taut.
2. A relaxed state regarding principles or accuracy.
3. Moral laxity; licentiousness.

Equivalents

Examples

“See if that nut has too much looseness and tighten it if it does.”

“Yet goodly court he made still to his Dame, / Pourd out in loosnesse on the grassy grownd [...].”

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