loosening (n.)
- abatement
- alleviation
- assuagement
- calming
- carelessness
- deadening
- demulcent
- diminution
- easiness
- easing
- easygoingness
- emollient
- hushing
- impotence
- imprecision
- indifference
- laxity
- laxness
- leniency
- lessening
- letdown
- letup
- lightening
- looseness
- mitigation
- modulation
- mollification
- negligence
- overindulgence
- pacification
- palliation
- permissiveness
- reduction
- relaxation
- remission
- remissness
- slackening
- slackness
- sloppiness
- softening
- softness
- tempering
- unrestraint
- weakness
