Loosening vs Relaxation - What's the difference?
loosening | relaxation |
The act of making something looser.
* 2013 , Michael Scott, Religious Language (page 169)
The act of relaxing or the state of being relaxed; the opposite of stress or tension; the aim of recreation and leisure activities.
A diminution of tone, tension, or firmness; specifically in pathology: a looseness; a diminution of the natural and healthy tone of parts.
Remission or abatement of rigor.
Remission of attention or application.
Unbending; recreation; a state or occupation intended to give mental or bodily relief after effort.
(physics) The transition of an atom or molecule from a higher energy level to a lower one.
(music) The release following musical tension.
As nouns the difference between loosening and relaxation
is that loosening is the act of making something looser while relaxation is the act of relaxing or the state of being relaxed; the opposite of stress or tension; the aim of recreation and leisure activities.As a verb loosening
is .loosening
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
Anagrams
*relaxation
English
Noun
(en noun)- relaxation of the soft palate
- relaxation of efforts