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1. Frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumour
   - diarrhea [N. Amer], diarrhoea [Brit, Cdn], looseness of the bowels
    
2. Freedom from restraint
   "the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made"
    
3. A lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice
   "misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression"
    
4. The quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints
    
5. Movement or space for movement
   - play
    
6. Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
   - profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness

Type of: inaccuracy, intemperance, intemperateness, movability, movableness, self-indulgence, symptom, unrestraint

Antonym: fixity

Part of: dysentery