looseness

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.

A relaxed state regarding principles or accuracy.

Moral laxity; licentiousness.

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