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looseness: movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel"; the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints; a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice; "misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression"; freedom from restraint; "the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made"

haziness collapse: cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor; vagueness attributable to being not clearly defined

promiscuity collapse: indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations

permissiveness collapse: a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior

laxness collapse: the quality of being lax and neglectful; the condition of being physiologically lax; "baths can help the laxness of the bowels"

generality collapse: the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability

familiarity collapse: an act of undue intimacy; close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"; usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known

procrastination collapse: the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time

vagueness collapse: indistinctness of shape or character; "the scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner"; unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning; "the Conservative manifesto is a model of vagueness"; "these terms were used with a vagueness that suggested little or no thought about what each might convey"

sociability collapse: the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows

nonfeasance collapse: a failure to act when under an obligation to do so; a refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is your legal duty to do

indecisiveness collapse: the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or purpose; "the king's incurable indecisiveness caused turmoil in his court"

relaxation collapse: a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount; an occurrence of control or strength weakening; "the relaxation of requirements"; "the loosening of his grip"; "the slackening of the wind"; (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance; (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers

oversight collapse: a mistake resulting from inattention; an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something

obscurity collapse: the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination; an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known; "he worked in obscurity for many years"

approximation collapse: the act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue; the quality of coming near to identity (especially close in quantity); an imprecise or incomplete account; "newspapers gave only an approximation of the actual events"

naturalness collapse: the likeness of a representation to the thing represented; "engineers strove to increase the naturalness of recorded music"; the quality of being natural or based on natural principles; "he accepted the naturalness of death"; "the spontaneous naturalness of his manner"

impurity collapse: the condition of being impure; worthless or dangerous material that should be removed; "there were impurities in the water"

negligence collapse: failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances; the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern

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