Looseness Synonyms and Antonyms

Frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. diarrhea
  2. diarrhoea
  3. looseness of the bowels
Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. profligacy
  2. dissipation
  3. dissolution
  4. licentiousness
The quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints
(Noun)
Antonyms:
  1. fixedness
Movement or space for movement
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. play
Antonyms:
  1. tightness
  2. fixedness

Words Related to Looseness

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Looseness Sentence Examples

  • The whole system was full of looseness, complexity and makeshifts.

  • A remarkable point in the Lancashire yarn trade is the looseness of the contracts between spinner and manufacturer.

  • The loose and barren rule of the Confederation seemed to conservative minds such as Hamilton's to presage, in its strengthening of individualism, a fatal looseness of social restraints, and led him on to a dread of democracy that he never overcame.

  • He seems not to have had the firmness of character nor the frugality of Walid; but he was very severe against the looseness of manners that reigned at Medina, and was highly religious.

  • The deliberate looseness which is thus given to his fundamental doctrine characterizes more or less his whole discussion of ethics.

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