Origin: Germanic Old English suffix
Looseness has 7 different meanings across 1 category:
frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
freedom from restraint
"the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made"
a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice
"misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression"
the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints
dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
The quality or fact of being free from rigidity, attachment or restraint; not tight, not firmly attached or taut.