Looseness Definition

noun

The quality or fact of being free from rigidity, attachment or restraint; not tight, not firmly attached or taut.

See if that nut has too much looseness and tighten it if it does.
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A relaxed state regarding principles or accuracy.

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Moral laxity; licentiousness.

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Origin of Looseness

  • From loose +‎ -ness.

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Looseness Sentence Examples

  • The whole system was full of looseness, complexity and makeshifts.

  • A remarkable point in the Lancashire yarn trade is the looseness of the contracts between spinner and manufacturer.

  • The loose and barren rule of the Confederation seemed to conservative minds such as Hamilton's to presage, in its strengthening of individualism, a fatal looseness of social restraints, and led him on to a dread of democracy that he never overcame.

  • He seems not to have had the firmness of character nor the frugality of Walid; but he was very severe against the looseness of manners that reigned at Medina, and was highly religious.

  • The deliberate looseness which is thus given to his fundamental doctrine characterizes more or less his whole discussion of ethics.

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