Looseness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  looseness
       n : movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in
           the steering wheel" [syn: {play}] [ant: {tightness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  153 Moby Thesaurus words for "looseness":
     Bohemianism, affability, allowance, amorphousness, approximation,
     bagginess, blobbiness, blowziness, blurriness, 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