Definition for Looseness:

• movement or space for movement; " there was too much play in the steering wheel"

Synonyms for Looseness:

• n.

  •attribute (noun)
  • play,
  • looseness.
  •corruption (noun)
  • impurity,
  • vulgarity,
  • depravity,
  • viciousness,
  • wickedness,
  • degradation,
  • turpitude,
  • perversion,
  • iniquity,
  • degeneration,
  • atrocity,
  • decadence.
  •disorder (noun)
  • insanity,
  • formlessness,
  • deformity,
  • anarchism,
  • disarrangement,
  • amorphousness,
  • fuzziness,
  • obscurity,
  • inconsistency,
  • disarray,
  • chaos,
  • shapelessness,
  • mess,
  • messiness,
  • disorderliness,
  • inexactness,
  • entropy,
  • indistinctness,
  • anarchy,
  • disconnectedness,
  • incoherence,
  • turmoil,
  • disorganization,
  • commotion,
  • muddlement,
  • unevenness,
  • confusion,
  • clutter,
  • derangement,
  • tumult,
  • inchoateness,
  • perturbation,
  • dishevel,
  • frenzy,
  • disintegration,
  • disorder,
  • indefiniteness,
  • discomposure.
  •evil (noun)
  • devilry,
  • heinousness,
  • affliction,
  • meanness,
  • hatred,
  • wrong,
  • malevolence,
  • blow,
  • Diablerie,
  • crime,
  • curse,
  • criminality,
  • harm,
  • lewdness,
  • Knaveries,
  • wrongdoing,
  • suffering,
  • outrage,
  • Peccancy,
  • hurt,
  • misery,
  • mischief,
  • indecency,
  • baseness,
  • obscenity,
  • catastrophe,
  • misfortune,
  • sorrow,
  • knavery,
  • diabolisms,
  • sin,
  • woe,
  • criminalities,
  • villainy,
  • impiety,
  • ill,
  • vileness,
  • malignity,
  • injury,
  • debauchery,
  • diabolism,
  • calamity,
  • pain,
  • ruin,
  • perversity.
  •promiscuity (noun)
  • Indiscrimination.
  •slackness (noun)
  • nihilism,
  • free rein,
  • slackness,
  • mob rule,
  • toleration,
  • laxness.
  •vice (noun)
  • debasement,
  • lust,
  • carnality,
  • lechery,
  • venality,
  • maleficence,
  • decay,
  • evildoing,
  • rot,
  • offense,
  • degeneracy,
  • transgression,
  • malignance,
  • libidinousness,
  • squalor,
  • trespass.

• Other synonyms:

  •diarrhea
  • dysentery.

Antonyms for Looseness:

• n.

  • attribute
    tightness, fixedness.
  • corruption
    cleanness, honor, cleanliness, honesty, virtue, kindness, decency, goodness, purification, pureness, good, sterility, morality, wholesomeness, purity, truthfulness.
  • evil
    good fortune, fortune, health, modesty, good luck, help, nobility, joy, relief, comfort, profit, benefit, blessing, innocence, happiness, uprightness, pleasure, advantage, benevolence, propriety, boon, aid, cheer.
  • irregularity
    normality, regularity, uniformity, rule, usualness, standard, custom, habit, conformity.
  • license
    humility, ban, care, order, meekness, prohibition, caution, reason, refusal, withholding, cowardice.
  • vice
    improvement, obedience, right, chastity, growth, development, strength, good point.
  • Other antonyms:
    fixity, fixture, fastness, secureness.

Looseness Sentence Examples:

• This, together with the looseness of his religious principles, led her to give his lordship a positive refusal, though he is neither destitute of talents, nor personal accomplishments.

• There has been considerable looseness in the writings of even the best authors as to the way in which the gas temperature difference is to be measured.

Homophones for Looseness:

• license, Leakiness, losings, leaching, laughing jackass, laziness, lysimachus, legging, laxness, lusciousness, locking, logging, leguminous, luging, lessing, lashing, lawlessness, Lake Onega, liking, Logomachy, loquaciousness, lake nyasa, lacking, laughing, lushness, licence, leguminosae, licensee, lacewing, licking, lake seneca, lagging, ligneous, loginess, lysogenize, looking, leishmaniasis, likening, licencee, loch ness, lozenge, lysogenic, loganiaceae, laughing gas, lychnis, lysenko, lashings, lousiness, leguminious, leucogenes, logomach, loosening, lichenes, lysimachia, logginess, likeness, lessening, lissomeness, lignosae, leishmaniosis, lacing, laconic, like kings, Luckiness.

Hypernym for Looseness:

• n.

  • attribute
    slackness, wiggliness, slack.

Hyponym for Looseness:

• n.

  • attribute
    movability, movableness, inaccuracy, unrestraint.