'Looseness' definitions:
Definition of 'looseness'
(from WordNet)
noun
Frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor [syn: diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels, looseness]
noun
Freedom from restraint; "the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made"
noun
A lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice; "misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression"
noun
The quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints [ant: fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, secureness]
noun
Movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel" [syn: looseness, play] [ant: tautness, tightness]
noun
Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure [syn: profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness]
Definition of 'Looseness'
From: GCIDE
- Looseness \Loose"ness\, n. The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'looseness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affability,
- allowance,
- amorphousness,
- approximation,
- bagginess,
- blobbiness,
- blowziness,
- blurriness,
- Bohemianism,
- broadness,
- carelessness,
- casualness,
- chambering,
- chintziness,
- common touch,
- cordiality,
- culpa,
- culpable negligence,
- default,
- dereliction,
- deviation,
- disorder,
- disregard,
- dowdiness,
- ease,
- easiness,
- easy virtue,
- easygoingness,
- failure,
- familiarity,
- flabbiness,
- flaccidity,
- flaccidness,
- floppiness,
- fogginess,
- folksiness,
- frowziness,
- frumpishness,
- fuzziness,
- generality,
- graciousness,
- grubbiness,
- haziness,
- homeliness,
- homeyness,
- ill-definedness,
- impotence,
- imprecision,
- inaccuracy,
- inaccurateness,
- inadvertence,
- inadvertency,
- inattention,
- inchoateness,
- incoherence,
- incorrectness,
- indecisiveness,
- indefinableness,
- indefiniteness,
- indeterminateness,
- indifference,
- indistinctness,
- inexactitude,
- inexactness,
- informality,
- informalness,
- irregularity,
- laches,
- laissez-faire,
- lapse,
- laxation,
- laxity,
- laxness,
- leniency,
- lightness,
- limpness,
- loose morals,
- loosening,
- messiness,
- mistiness,
- naturalness,
- neglect,
- neglectfulness,
- negligence,
- nonfeasance,
- noninterference,
- nonperformance,
- nonrestriction,
- obscuration,
- obscurity,
- offhandedness,
- omission,
- overindulgence,
- overlooking,
- overpermissiveness,
- oversight,
- permissiveness,
- plainness,
- poor stewardship,
- predictable error,
- probable error,
- procrastination,
- promiscuity,
- relaxation,
- relaxedness,
- remissness,
- ricketiness,
- rubberiness,
- seediness,
- shabbiness,
- shakiness,
- shapelessness,
- shoddiness,
- simplicity,
- slackness,
- slatternliness,
- sleeping around,
- slight,
- slipshodness,
- sloppiness,
- slovenliness,
- slovenry,
- sluttishness,
- sociability,
- softness,
- sordidness,
- squalidness,
- squalor,
- standard deviation,
- sweepingness,
- swinging,
- tackiness,
- tawdriness,
- tolerance,
- unaffectedness,
- unceremoniousness,
- unclearness,
- unconstrainedness,
- unconstraint,
- unconventionality,
- uncorrectness,
- unfactualness,
- unneatness,
- unpreciseness,
- unpretentiousness,
- unrestraint,
- unrigorousness,
- untidiness,
- vagueness,
- wantonness,
- waywardness,
- weakness,
- whorishness
Words containing 'Looseness'
- Loose,
- Loosed,
- Loosely,
- Loosing,
- loose off,
- on the loose,
- A screw loose,
- At loose ends,
- Fast and loose,
- Loose liver,
- Loose pulley,
- To break loose,
- To get loose,
- To give a loose,
- To let loose,
- To loose sails,
- break loose,
- cut loose,
- let loose,
- loose cannon,
- loose end,
- loose ends,
- loose sentence,
- loose smut,
- loose woman,
- loosely knit,
- looseness of the bowels,
- pry loose from,
- tear loose,
- Fast and loose pulleys,
- foot-loose,
- loose-fitting,
- loose-jointed,
- loose-jowled,
- loose-leaf,
- screw-loose,
- loose-leaf binder,
- loose-leaf lettuce