looseness

noun

Definition of loosenessnext
1
as in laxness

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2
as in lasciviousness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for looseness
  1. laxity
  2. perversion
  3. degeneracy
  4. indecency
  5. degeneration
  6. lechery
  7. criminality
  8. dissolution
Noun
  • However, post-weight-loss surgeries predominantly focus on correcting skin laxity and restoring volume and typically include a combination of abdominoplasty (i.e. tummy tuck), breast lift or augmentation, brachioplasty (i.e., arm, thigh lifts).
    Jessica Ourisman, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • There comes a point, experts agree, where patients essentially age out of submental lipo, since stripping fat from a mature neck can exacerbate skin laxity and drooping and expose cord-like bands in the platysma muscle.
    Jolene Edgar, Allure, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of laxity
Noun
  • There’s an itch to depict Diddy as a Black Jeffrey Epstein, the ringleader of clandestine, A-list perversion.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Spanish officials also accused Vives of criminal conspiracy, fraud and perversion of justice and are currently seeking a six year prison sentence for the executive.
    Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2024
Definition of perversion
Noun
  • Their spinsterhood took on an ominous cast, their celibacy no longer evidence of pure, Christian love, but now suggestive of physical, emotional, and intellectual degeneracy.
    Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024
  • America, Where the Dogs Don’t Bark and the Birds Don’t Sing The Comte de Buffon's thirty-six volume Natural History claimed that America was a land of degeneracy.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
Definition of degeneracy
Noun
  • The announcement comes after the district on July 31 told parents that LBJ band, piano and choir teacher Rodney Childers had been arrested and charged with indecency with a child by exposure and two counts of improper educator-student relationship, all second-degree felonies.
    Keri Heath, Austin American-Statesman, 8 Aug. 2024
  • In short, when faced with a genuine choice between civility and decency versus vulgarity and indecency, most Americans who voted in the 2024 elections opted for the latter.
    Mordechai Gordon, Hartford Courant, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of indecency
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  • Overweight or obese cats are more exposed to the risk of diseases like cancer, diabetes mellitus, heart disease, hypertension, osteoarthritis and faster degeneration of affected joints, and urinary bladder stones, as well as anesthetic complications.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
  • New hope for patients with spinal cord injuries or degeneration Each year, up to half a million people worldwide suffer a spinal cord injury—and countless others are impacted by the devastating effects.
    NBC Universal, NBC News, 7 July 2023
Definition of degeneration
Noun
  • Harper is under siege by multiple manifestations of toxic masculinity—lechery, neediness, condescension, even Geoffrey’s uncomfortable banter.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022
  • Perrotta is up to his old tricks, painting a man’s thoughtless lechery in touching tones, inviting misreading.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
Definition of lechery
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  • The sheer scale of the criminality meant the case was split into two trials.
    Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Prosecutors took liberties in interpreting defendants’ literary work to imply a criminality bleeding into every aspect of their lives.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of criminality
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  • This time around, Trudeau would prorogue parliament in hopes the height of the latest scandal would pass and give the party enough time to avoid dissolution.
    Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Plus, as shown in the film, Run had just announced the dissolution of Run-DMC at Jam Master Jay’s funeral, which was unbeknownst to him.
    Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of dissolution
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loosened (up)

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