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looseness

Nouns

• (n) frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels,
• (n) freedom from restraint
  • the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made
• (n) a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice
  • misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression
• (n) the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints
• (n) movement or space for movement
  • there was too much play in the steering wheel
  play,
• (n) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure dissipation, licentiousness, profligacy, dissolution,

Synonyms

diarrhea diarrhoea looseness of the bowels play dissipation licentiousness profligacy dissolution

Antonyms

fixity fastness fixedness secureness fixture tautness tightness

Words of close approximity