Loosing vs Loosening - What's the difference?
loosing | loosening |
The act of making something looser.
* 2013 , Michael Scott, Religious Language (page 169)
As verbs the difference between loosing and loosening
is that loosing is while loosening is .As a noun loosening is
the act of making something looser.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.