tightness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tightness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for tightness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tightness n a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit Synonym(s): stringency, 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" Synonym(s): constriction, tightness the spatial property of being crowded together Synonym(s): concentration, density, denseness, tightness, compactness Antonym(s): dispersion, distribution extreme stinginess Synonym(s): meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness lack of movement or room for movement Synonym(s): tightness, tautness Antonym(s): looseness, play
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tightness \Tight"ness\, n. The quality or condition of being tight.