[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

looseness
     n : movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in
         the steering wheel" syn: play ant: tightness
see also:
play tightness 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

153 moby thesaurus words for "looseness":
   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

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