The state or quality of being lax.
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Looseness or slackness of the muscles and soft tissue surrounding a joint. Symptomatic looseness is called instability.
Looseness. Used to describe the hyperextensibility of skin, and sometimes joints, in cutaneous asthenia and ehlers–danlos syndrome.
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
the quality of being lax and neglectful
Synonyms: laxness, remissness
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