Looseness

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈluːsnÉ™s/

Origin

From loose + -ness.

Full definition of looseness

Noun

1. The quality or fact of being free from rigidity, attachment or restraint; not tight, not firmly attached or taut.See if that nut has too much looseness and tighten it if it does.
2. A relaxed state regarding principles or accuracy.
3. Moral laxity; licentiousness.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:Yet goodly court he made still to his Dame,
  Pourd out in loosnesse on the grassy grownd ....