looseness

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That sort of ethical looseness is common and spot-on.

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frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of looseness gathered in one view.

noun

frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor

noun

freedom from restraint; "the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made"

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a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice; "misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for looseness.

noun

frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor

noun

freedom from restraint; "the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made"

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a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice; "misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression"

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the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints

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movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel"

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dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure

Example sentences

That sort of ethical looseness is common and spot-on.

Python's looseness still made it harder to deal with for complex situations but it's decent.

I feel like one of the merits of python is the looseness of classes and multiple inheritance.

It's the sort of looseness that causes people to think cellular telephones also talk to satellites.

Sure, but you can't take advantage of that looseness to scale a collection across a crapton of cheap nodes, either.

It is the particular looseness of the Autistic Spectrum that's allowed linguistic creep.

"At the same time, when I was young and just getting started and didn’t know what I was doing, I had a freeness and a looseness and an energy that I don’t really have anymore.

It pushes very strongly about the looseness and lack of clarity around accountabilities in a structure-less org.

That looseness is formally encoded in the S-m-n theorem, but without even going to those extremes, it's a basic prerequisite for the statement of the Halting Problem itself.

The dynamism and looseness of the language make code transformation tools much harder to write - which is why XCode is only now starting to approach Eclipse on refactorings and completion.

Relaxation and looseness apparently have a very narrow maximum window of effectiveness while drinking.

Rust is motivated by the fact that Mozilla is tired of Firefox getting pwned by dint of C++'s looseness, and despairing at the fact that further improvements to Firefox will entail tacking concurrency onto a multi-million-line C++ codebase dating back to 1997, which would be notoriously difficult even if security weren't a concern.