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tightfistedness |
tightlipped |
tightly |
tightly fitting |
tightly knit |
tightness
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| tightrope walker
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tightness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tightness has 5 senses
- tightness(n = noun.state) stringency - a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit; Array is a kind of deficiency, lack, want
- tightness(n = noun.cognition) constriction - 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" is a kind of feeling
- tightness(n = noun.attribute) compactness, concentration, denseness, density - the spatial property of being crowded together; Array is a kind of spacing, spatial arrangement
- tightness(n = noun.attribute) closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness - extreme stinginess; Array is a kind of stinginess
- tightness(n = noun.attribute) tautness - lack of movement or room for movement; Array is a kind of immovability, immovableness
Derived form adjective tight6
Derived form adjective tight1
Derived form adjective tight3
has particulars: littleness, pettiness, smallness, miserliness
Derived form adjective tight5
Antonym: looseness
Derived form adjective tight2
THESAURUS
tightness
Jim Crow, adhesiveness, alien, apartheid, avarice, bullheadedness, cheapness, chinchiness, chintziness, closefistedness, closeness, cohesiveness, color bar, confinement, consistency, crowdedness, division, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, exiguity, fewness, firmness, foreigner, gluiness, glutinosity, gumminess, hair, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, hardfistedness, hoarding, illiberality, incapaciousness, incommodiousness, infrequency, insularity, insulation, isolation, know-nothingism, limitation, meagerness, miserliness, narrow gauge, narrowness, nearness, niggardliness, obstinacy, out-group, outcast, outsider, parochialism, paucity, penny-pinching, persistence, persistency, persona non grata, quarantine, race hatred, racial segregation, rarity, renitence, renitency, restrictedness, restriction, retention, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, scantiness, scarcity, scrimpiness, seclusion, segregation, separation, skimpiness, slenderness, smallness, snobbishness, snugness, sparseness, sparsity, starchiness, stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, stiffness, stinginess, straitness, stranger, strictness, stringency, stubbornness, tackiness, tautness, tenaciousness, tenacity, tenseness, tension, tensity, thinness, tight purse strings, tight squeeze, tightfistedness, toughness, ungenerosity, viscidity, viscosity, xenophobia
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