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looseness
noun as in corruption
noun as in evil
Strong matches
- affliction
- baseness
- blow
- criminality
- curse
- debauchery
- depravity
- devilry
- diabolism
- heinousness
- hurt
- impiety
- indecency
- infamy
- iniquity
- injury
- knavery
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- malevolence
- malignity
- meanness
- mischief
- misfortune
- obscenity
- outrage
- perversity
- ruin
- sinfulness
- sorrow
- turpitude
- vice
- viciousness
- vileness
- villainy
- wickedness
- woe
- wrongdoing
Weak match
noun as in immorality
noun as in improbity
noun as in irregularity
noun as in libertinism
Weak matches
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- licentiousness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- relaxedness
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
noun as in license
Strong matches
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
Weak match
noun as in licentiousness
Strong matches
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
Weak matches
noun as in peccancy
Weak matches
- affliction
- baseness
- blow
- calamity
- catastrophe
- corruption
- crime
- criminality
- curse
- debauchery
- depravity
- devilry
- diabolism
- harm
- hatred
- heinousness
- hurt
- ill
- impiety
- indecency
- infamy
- iniquity
- injury
- knavery
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- malevolence
- malignity
- meanness
- mischief
- misery
- misfortune
- obscenity
- outrage
- pain
- perversity
- ruin
- sin
- sinfulness
- sorrow
- suffering
- turpitude
- vice
- viciousness
- vileness
- villainy
- wickedness
- woe
- wrong
- wrongdoing
noun as in profligacy
Strongest match
Strong matches
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- lawlessness
- laxity
- licentiousness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
Weak matches
noun as in promiscuity
Strong match
Weak match
noun as in vice
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Example Sentences
That gives Obama plenty of time to use the current looseness of the law to push forward the releases of many more prisoners.
Now we can see the wonderful looseness of his brushwork as well.
It was that mixture of precision and looseness that was so influential.
It fell with a looseness and 323 finality that told Masten of the end.
Security against injury by shock, whether due to the presence of water in the cylinder or to looseness of running parts.
The looseness of the vessels and the weakness of the retentive faculty, is known from a moist and loose habit of the body.
If it proceeds from the retentive faculty, and looseness of the vessels, it is to be corrected with gentle astringents.
His bowels have always been regular, and rather inclined to looseness, but never disordered.
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On this page you'll find 479 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to looseness, such as: atrocity, degradation, evil, decadence, degeneration, and depravity.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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