tightness

noun

1. extreme stinginess

• Syn:

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

• Derivationally related forms:

↑close (for: ↑closeness), ↑tightfisted (for: ↑tightfistedness), ↑tight, ↑parsimonious (for: ↑parsimoniousness), ↑parsimonious (for: ↑parsimony), ↑niggardly (for: ↑niggardliness), ↑mingy (for: ↑minginess), ↑mean (for: ↑meanness)

• Hypernyms: ↑stinginess

• Hyponyms: ↑pettiness, ↑littleness, ↑smallness, ↑miserliness

2. the spatial property of being crowded together

• Syn: ↑concentration, ↑density, ↑denseness, ↑compactness

• Ant: ↑distribution (for: ↑concentration)

• Derivationally related forms: ↑tight, ↑dense (for: ↑denseness), ↑dense (for: ↑density), ↑concentrate (for: ↑concentration)

• Hypernyms: ↑spacing, ↑spatial arrangement

3. a tight feeling in some part of the body

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he felt a constriction in her chest

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she felt an alarming tightness in her chest

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emotion caused a constriction of his throat

• Syn: ↑constriction

• Derivationally related forms: ↑tight

• Hypernyms: ↑feeling

4. a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit

• Syn: ↑stringency

• Derivationally related forms: ↑tight

• Hypernyms: ↑lack, ↑deficiency, ↑want

5. lack of movement or room for movement

• Syn: ↑tautness

• Ant: ↑looseness

• Derivationally related forms: ↑taut (for: ↑tautness), ↑tight

• Hypernyms: ↑immovability, ↑immovableness