looseness

Plural: loosenesses

Noun

• frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
• freedom from restraint
  • "the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made"
• a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice
  • "misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression"
• the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints
• movement or space for movement
• dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
• The quality or fact of being free from rigidity, attachment or restraint; not tight, not firmly attached or taut.
• A relaxed state regarding principles or accuracy.
• Moral laxity; licentiousness.

Verb

• make loose or looser
• make less severe or strict
• become less severe or strict
• disentangle and raise the fibers of
• cause to become loose
• make less dense
• become loose or looser or less tight

Examples

• See if that nut has too much looseness and tighten it if it does.

Synonyms

diarrhea, diarrhoea, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, loose, loosen, looseness of the bowels, play, profligacy, relax, tease, tease apart, undo, untie

Antonyms

fixedness, stiffen, tightness