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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (5)

1. a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit;
[syn: stringency, tightness]

2. a tight feeling in some part of the body;
- Example: "he felt a constriction in her chest"
- Example: "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest"
- Example: "emotion caused a constriction of his throat"
[syn: constriction, tightness]

3. the spatial property of being crowded together;
[syn: concentration, density, denseness, tightness, compactness]

4. extreme stinginess;
[syn: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness]

5. lack of movement or room for movement;
[syn: tightness, tautness]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tightness \Tight"ness\, n.
   The quality or condition of being tight.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tightness
    n 1: a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of
         credit [syn: stringency, tightness]
    2: 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"
       [syn: constriction, tightness]
    3: the spatial property of being crowded together [syn:
       concentration, density, denseness, tightness,
       compactness] [ant: dispersion, distribution]
    4: extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess,
       niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony,
       parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness,
       closeness]
    5: lack of movement or room for movement [syn: tightness,
       tautness] [ant: looseness, play]