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loosening

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of loosen

noun loosenings

  1. The act of making something looser. Turning to metaphor, the loosenings involved in metaphorical interpretation tend not to be pure but to involve a change that results in the extension of the loosened concept overlapping with but not including all of the denotations of the pre-loosened concept.

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@misc{loosening_2026,
  title = {loosening},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/loosening},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}