noun
1. frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
• Syn: ↑diarrhea, ↑diarrhoea, ↑looseness of the bowels
• Derivationally related forms: ↑loose, ↑diarrhoetic (for: ↑diarrhoea), ↑diarrhoeal (for: ↑diarrhoea), ↑diarrhetic (for: ↑diarrhea), ↑diarrheal (for: ↑diarrhea)
• Hypernyms: ↑symptom
• Hyponyms: ↑the shits, ↑the trots, ↑Montezuma's revenge
• Part Holonyms: ↑dysentery
2. freedom from restraint
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the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made
• Derivationally related forms: ↑loose
• Hypernyms: ↑unrestraint
3. a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice
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misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression
• Derivationally related forms: ↑loose
• Hypernyms: ↑inaccuracy
4. the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints
• Ant: ↑fixedness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑loose
• Hypernyms: ↑movability, ↑movableness
5. movement or space for movement
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there was too much play in the steering wheel
• Syn: ↑play
• Ant: ↑tightness
• Hypernyms: ↑movability, ↑movableness
• Hyponyms: ↑wiggliness, ↑slack, ↑slackness
6. dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
• Syn: ↑profligacy, ↑dissipation, ↑dissolution, ↑licentiousness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑loose, ↑licentious (for: ↑licentiousness), ↑dissipate (for: ↑dissipation)
• Hypernyms: ↑intemperance, ↑intemperateness, ↑self-indulgence
Useful english dictionary. 2012.