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tightness

DEFINITIONS OF: tightness

1

n lack of movement or room for movement

Synonyms:
tautness
Antonyms:
looseness, play
movement or space for movement
Type of:
immovability, immovableness
not capable of being moved or rearranged

n the spatial property of being crowded together

Synonyms:
compactness, concentration, denseness, density
Antonyms:
dispersion, distribution
the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
Type of:
spacing, spatial arrangement
the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them

n a tight feeling in some part of the body

“she felt an alarming tightness in her chest”
Synonyms:
constriction
Type of:
feeling
a physical sensation that you experience

n a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit

Synonyms:
stringency
Type of:
deficiency, lack, want
the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

n extreme stinginess

Synonyms:
closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness
Types:
littleness, pettiness, smallness
lack of generosity in trifling matters
miserliness
total lack of generosity with money
Type of:
stinginess
a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money
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