TIGHTNESS

tightness, tautness

(noun) lack of movement or room for movement

meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness

(noun) extreme stinginess

concentration, density, denseness, tightness, compactness

(noun) the spatial property of being crowded together

constriction, tightness

(noun) 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”

stringency, tightness

(noun) a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

tightness (countable and uncountable, plural tightnesses)

The quality or degree of being tight

Source: Wiktionary


Tight"ness, n.

Definition: The quality or condition of being tight.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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DISPERSION

(noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something; “the dispersion of the troops”; “the diffusion of knowledge”


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