loosening

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loosening

1. present participle and gerund of loosen

loosening (plural loosenings)

1. The act of making something looser.
   • 2013, Michael Scott, Religious Language, page 169:

     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.

• loosening up

• goniolens