looseness

noun

1. The quality or fact of being free from rigidity, attachment or restraint; not tight, not firmly attached or taut.

   “See if that nut has too much looseness and tighten it if it does.”

2. A relaxed state regarding principles or accuracy.
3. Moral laxity; licentiousness.

   “Yet goodly court he made still to his Dame, / Pourd out in loosnesse on the grassy grownd [...].”