SkyfireDict

tightness   (TTS Sound)

The noun tightness has 5 senses

• stringency, tightness -- (a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit)


• 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")


• concentration, density, denseness, tightness, compactness -- (the spatial property of being crowded together)


• meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness -- (extreme stinginess)


• tightness, tautness -- (lack of movement or room for movement)