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
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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

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

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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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