looseness

Noun

• dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure

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

• the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints

• a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice
  • misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression
    

• freedom from restraint
  • the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made
    

• frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  profligacy , dissipation , dissolution , licentiousness , play , diarrhea , diarrhoea , looseness of the bowels
• Antonyms: 
  tightness , tautness , fastness , fixedness , fixity , fixture , secureness