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loosness

loosness is the obsolete form 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

Origin of loosness

From loose + -ness.

Questions about loosness

What is loosness the obsolete form of?
Loosness is the obsolete form of looseness.

Words near loosness in the dictionary

  1. loosish
  2. Loosley
  3. Loosley Row
  4. Loosleys
  5. loosly
  6. loosness
  7. loosy-goosy
  8. loot
  9. loot box
  10. loot boxes
  11. loot crate

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