| tightness | | |
| n. (state) | 1. stringency, tightness | a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit. |
| ~ deficiency, lack, want | the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" |
| n. (cognition) | 2. constriction, tightness | a tight feeling in some part of the body.; "he felt a constriction in her chest"; "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest"; "emotion caused a constriction of his throat" |
| ~ feeling | a physical sensation that you experience.; "he had a queasy feeling"; "I had a strange feeling in my leg"; "he lost all feeling in his arm" |
| n. (attribute) | 3. compactness, concentration, denseness, density, tightness | the spatial property of being crowded together. |
| ~ spatial arrangement, spacing | the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them. |
| n. (attribute) | 4. closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness | extreme stinginess. |
| ~ stinginess | a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money. |
| ~ littleness, pettiness, smallness | lack of generosity in trifling matters. |
| ~ miserliness | total lack of generosity with money. |
| n. (attribute) | 5. tautness, tightness | lack of movement or room for movement. |
| ~ immovability, immovableness | not capable of being moved or rearranged. |
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