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loosenesses

loosenesses is the plural of looseness.

Meaning of looseness

Noun

looseness (plural loosenesses)

  1. 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.
  2. A relaxed state regarding principles or accuracy.
  3. Moral laxity; licentiousness.
    • Yet goodly court he made still to his Dame, / Pourd out in loosnesse on the grassy grownd [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about loosenesses

What is loosenesses the plural of?
Loosenesses is the plural of looseness.

Words near loosenesses in the dictionary

  1. loosened the purse strings
  2. loosened up
  3. loosener
  4. looseners
  5. looseness
  6. loosenesses
  7. loosenest
  8. looseneth
  9. loosening
  10. loosening someone's tongue
  11. loosening the apron strings

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