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
  • 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
  • These lasers are an all-purpose skin refresh, mitigating sun damage, smoothing fine lines and wrinkles, improving skin laxity, tightening the appearance of pore size, and brightening the skin.
    Amber Gibson, Glamour, 21 Oct. 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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  • Researchers believe that the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds found in fresh and dried garlic may help reduce inflammation in the brain and protect against nerve cell degeneration, which could help support overall brain health and reduce the risk of cognitive decline.4 3.
    Jillian Kubala, Health, 10 Dec. 2024
  • In the spring of 1993, nerve degeneration from ALS began causing Woody’s speech to slur.
    Shaun Raviv, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2020
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
Noun
  • Much of the reason for this can be traced back to the dark web and the underground criminal marketplaces that trade within it, where all the tools required to open up this type of criminality are laid bare for anyone with the cryptocurrency to purchase it.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • And an already weary donor community sees risks in the growing militancy and criminality in the camps.
    Nasir Uddin, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
Definition of criminality
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  • Prescott presents the dissolution of the monasteries from the numerous interlaced viewpoints of ordinary people – nuns made homeless, devout country people bewildered, the instigators of the Pilgrimage of Grace heading towards their ghastly ends.
    The Week UK, theweek, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The high-voltage operation leads to issues such as transition metal dissolution, corrosion stress cracking and electrolyte oxidation, which result in poor coulombic efficiency and short cycle life.
    Matthew Dawson, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of dissolution
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