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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LOOSENESS, n. loos'ness.
1. The state of being loose or relaxed; a state opposite to that of being tight, fast, fixed or compact; as the looseness of a cord; the looseness of a robe; the looseness of the skin; the looseness of earth, or of the texture of cloth.
2. The state opposite to rigor or rigidness; laxity; levity; as looseness of morals or of principles.
3. Irregularity; habitual deviation from strict rules; as looseness of life.
4. Habitual lewdness; unchastity.
5. Flux from the bowels; diarrhaea.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor [syn: diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels, looseness]
2: freedom from restraint; "the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made"
3: a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice; "misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression"
4: the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints [ant: fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, secureness]
5: movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel" [syn: looseness, play] [ant: tautness, tightness]
6: dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure [syn: profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness]

Merriam Webster's

noun see loose I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Slackness, easiness. 2. Laxity, levity. 3. Irregularity. 4. Lewdness, unchastity, wantonness, wickedness. 5. Diarrhoea, flux, laxity. 6. Openness, laxity.

Moby Thesaurus

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