Usually means: Lack of tightness or tension.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word looseness:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. looseness: Merriam-Webster
  2. looseness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. looseness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. looseness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Looseness, looseness: Wordnik
  6. looseness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. looseness: Wiktionary
  8. Looseness, looseness: Dictionary.com
  9. Looseness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. looseness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. looseness: Rhymezone
  12. Looseness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. looseness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. LOOSENESS: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  15. looseness: FreeDictionary.org
  16. looseness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. looseness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. looseness: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. looseness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. looseness: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. looseness: Medical dictionary
  3. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. looseness: Idioms

(Note: See loose as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (looseness)

noun:  The quality or fact of being free from rigidity, attachment or restraint; not tight, not firmly attached or taut.
noun:  A relaxed state regarding principles or accuracy.
noun:  Moral laxity; licentiousness.

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