| NOUN | state | looseness, diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels | frequent and watery bowel movements |
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| attribute | looseness | freedom from restraint | |
| attribute | looseness | a lack of strict accuracy | |
| attribute | looseness | the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints | |
| attribute | looseness, play | movement or space for movement | |
| act | looseness, profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness | dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure |
| Meaning | frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor. | |
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| Synonyms | diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels | |
| Part of | dysentery | An infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea |
| Narrower | Montezuma's revenge | diarrhea contracted in Mexico or Central America |
| the shits, the trots | obscene terms for diarrhea | |
| Broader | symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease |
| Spanish | colitis, descomposición, diarrea | |
| Catalan | diarrea | |
| Adjectives | loose | emptying easily or excessively |
| Meaning | freedom from restraint. | |
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| Example | "the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made" | |
| Broader | unrestraint | The quality of lacking restraint |
| Spanish | imprecisión, vaguedad | |
| Adjectives | loose | lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility |
| Meaning | A lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice. | |
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| Example | "misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression" | |
| Broader | inaccuracy | The quality of being inaccurate and having errors |
| Adjectives | loose | not literal |
| Meaning | The quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints. | |
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| Broader | movability, movableness | The quality of being movable / movable |
| Opposite | fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, secureness | The quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment |
| Adjectives | loose | not tight |
| loose | not compact or dense in structure or arrangement | |
| loose | not affixed | |
| Meaning | movement or space for movement. | |
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| Synonym | play | |
| Narrower | slack, slackness | The quality of being loose (not taut) |
| wiggliness | A jerky back and forth kind of mobility | |
| Broader | movability, movableness | The quality of being movable / movable |
| Opposite | tightness, tautness | lack of movement or room for movement |
| Spanish | amplitud, holgura, soltura | |
| Catalan | amplitud, deseiximent, folga, folgança, soltesa | |
| Adjectives | loose | not tense or taut |
| Meaning | dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure. | |
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| Synonyms | profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness | |
| Broader | intemperance, intemperateness, self-indulgence | excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence |
| Spanish | disolución, libertinaje, soltura | |
| Catalan | dissolució, llibertinatge | |
| Adjectives | loose | casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior |
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