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The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.

wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

scharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation. Chivalry had the vices of dissoluteness. Bancroft.

ëriform. or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity. It was this want of organization, this looseness and fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate through every class of society. J. R. Green.

roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.

Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence, looseness; laxity; independence. In human actions there are no degrees and precise natural limits described, but a latitude is indulged. Jer. Taylor.

Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.

ce between the motion of a driver and that of a follower, due to the yielding of parts or looseness of joints.