Dictionary Definition
looseness n : movement or space for movement;
"there was too much play in the steering wheel" [syn: play] [ant: tightness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
looseness- The property of being loose.
- See if that nut has too much looseness and tighten it if it does.
Extensive Definition
Loose may refer to: *Loose
(album), a 2006 album by Nelly Furtado
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- Loose Mini DVD, a 2007 DVD by Nelly Furtado
- Loose the Concert, a 2007 live DVD by Nelly Furtado
- Loose (B'z album), a 1995 album by B'z
- Loose (Stooges song), a 1970 song by the Stooges
- Loose (song), a 1996 Therapy? single
- Loose, Germany
- Loose, Kent, a parish and village in southeast England
looseness in German: Loose
(Begriffsklärung)
looseness in Dutch: Loose
looseness in Russian: Loose
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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