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 Definition: [n]  movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel"
 
 Synonyms: play
 
 Antonyms: tautness, tightness
 
 See Also: movability, movableness, slack, slackness, wiggliness

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Loose"ness\, n.
The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the
looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals
or of principles.

 
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