Etymology

looseness

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Today it means: The quality or fact of being free from rigidity, attachment or restraint; not tight, not firmly attached or taut. Full definition →

English loose ← Middle English loos ← Old Norse lauss
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
  3. Proto-Germanic*leusaną
  4. Proto-Germanic*lausaz
  5. Old Norselauss
  6. Middle Englishloos
  7. Englishloose
  8. English todaylooseness

From loose + -ness.

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