Antonyms of noun looseness

2 of 6 senses of looseness

Sense 4
looseness -- (the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints)
       Antonym of fixedness (Sense 2)
      => fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, secureness -- (the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment)

Sense 5
looseness, play -- (movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel")
       Antonym of tightness (Sense 5)
      => tightness, tautness -- (lack of movement or room for movement)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun looseness

6 senses of looseness

Sense 1
diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels, looseness -- (frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor)
       => symptom -- ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Sense 2
looseness -- (freedom from restraint; "the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made")
       => unrestraint -- (the quality of lacking restraint)

Sense 3
looseness -- (a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice; "misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression")
       => inaccuracy -- (the quality of being inaccurate and having errors)

Sense 4
looseness -- (the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints)
       => movability, movableness -- (the quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearranged)

Sense 5
looseness, play -- (movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel")
       => movability, movableness -- (the quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearranged)

Sense 6
profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness -- (dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure)
       => intemperance, intemperateness, self-indulgence -- (excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence; "the intemperance of their language")