tightness meaning and definition

TIGHTNESS noun

Definition of tightness (noun)

1. a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
   • synonyms: stringency
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"
   • synonyms: constriction
3. the spatial property of being crowded together
   • synonyms: compactness, concentration, denseness, density
   • antonym: dispersion
4. extreme stinginess
   • synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness
5. lack of movement or room for movement
   • synonyms: tautness
   • antonym: looseness