Antonyms of noun tightness

1 of 5 senses of tightness

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

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

5 senses of tightness

Sense 1
stringency, tightness -- (a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit)
       => lack, deficiency, want -- (the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost")

Sense 2
constriction, tightness -- (a tight feeling in some part of the body; "he felt a constriction in her chest"; "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest"; "emotion caused a constriction of his throat")
       => feeling -- (a physical sensation that you experience; "he had a queasy feeling"; "I had a strange feeling in my leg"; "he lost all feeling in his arm")

Sense 3
concentration, density, denseness, tightness, compactness -- (the spatial property of being crowded together)
       => spacing, spatial arrangement -- (the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them)

Sense 4
meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness -- (extreme stinginess)
       => stinginess -- (a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money)

Sense 5
tightness, tautness -- (lack of movement or room for movement)
       => immovability, immovableness -- (not capable of being moved or rearranged)

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