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loosening
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loosening
abatement, allayment, alleviation, assuagement, blunting, calming, carelessness, damping, deadening, demulcent, demulsion, diminution, dulcification, dulling, easiness, easing, easygoingness, emollient, falling-off, hushing, impotence, imprecision, indifference, laxity, laxness, leniency, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, looseness, lulling, mitigation, modulation, mollification, mollifying, negligence, overindulgence, overpermissiveness, pacification, palliation, permissiveness, quietening, quieting, reduction, relaxation, relaxedness, relaxing, remission, remissness, slackening, slackness, sloppiness, softening, softness, soothing, subduement, subduing, tempering, tranquilization, unrestraint, weaknessROGET THESAURUS
loosening
Incoherence
N incoherence, nonadhesion, immiscibility, incoherence, looseness, laxity, relaxation, loosening, freedom, disjunction, rope of sand, nonadhesive, immiscible, incoherent, detached, loose, baggy, slack, lax, relaxed, flapping, streaming, disheveled, segregated, like grains of sand unconsolidated &c, uncombined, noncohesive.Laxity
N laxity, laxness, looseness, slackness, toleration, freedom, anarchy, interregnum, relaxation, loosening, remission, dead letter, brutum fulmen, misrule, license, licentiousness, insubordination, lynch law, nihilism, reign of violence, dethronement, deposition, usurpation, abdication, lax, loose, slack, remiss, weak, relaxed, licensed, reinless, unbridled, anarchical, unauthorized, adespotic.For further exploring for "loosening" in Webster Dictionary Online