looseness

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈluːsnəs/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 [...].

词形变化

loosenesses plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Old Norse laussbor.
Middle English loos
English loose
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English looseness
From loose + -ness.
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