Definition of Tightness

1. Noun. A state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit.

Exact synonyms: Stringency
Generic synonyms: Deficiency, Lack, Want
Derivative terms: Tight

2. Noun. A tight feeling in some part of the body. "Emotion caused a constriction of his throat"
Exact synonyms: Constriction
Generic synonyms: Feeling
Derivative terms: Tight

3. Noun. The spatial property of being crowded together.
Exact synonyms: Compactness, Concentration, Denseness, Density
Generic synonyms: Spacing, Spatial Arrangement
Derivative terms: Concentrate, Dense, Dense, Tight
Antonyms: Distribution

4. Noun. Extreme stinginess.

5. Noun. Lack of movement or room for movement.
Exact synonyms: Tautness
Generic synonyms: Immovability, Immovableness
Derivative terms: Taut, Tight
Antonyms: Looseness

Definition of Tightness

1. n. The quality or condition of being tight.

Definition of Tightness

1. Noun. The quality or degree of being tight ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tightness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tightness

tightfitting
tighthead
tightheads
tightie-whities
tightish
tightknit
tightlaced
tightlacer
tightlacers
tightlacing
tightlipped
tightlippedness
tightly
tightly fitting
tightly knit
tightness (current term)
tightnesses
tightrope
tightrope walker
tightrope walking
tightropes
tightwad
tightwads
tightwire
tightwires
tighty-whities
tighty whities
tiglate
tiglian

Literary usage of Tightness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Economic and Budget Outlook: Fiscal Years, 1999-2008 edited by Sherry Snyder (1998)
"Inflation and tightness in the Product and Labor Markets Percent Product Market ... The GDP gap indicates the degree of tightness in product markets. ..."

2. Rudimentary Treatise on Marine Engines and Steam Vessels: Together with by Robert Murray (1858)
"The following method of ascertaining the tightness of the different parts of ... The tightness of the faces of D and other valves may be tested by shutting ..."

3. The London Medical Gazette (1833)
"The tightness of the chest and difficulty of breathing, though sufficiently distressing, have seldom been very urgent ; but on two occasions they rose to ..."

4. Irrigation Practice and Engineering by Bernard Alfred Etcheverry (1915)
"The increase in water-tightness and the durability of thin reinforced concrete pipe ... Tests of Water-tightness of Reinforced Concrete Pipe on the Umatilla ..."

5. Irrigation Practice and Engineering by Bernard Alfred Etcheverry (1915)
"The increase in water-tightness and the durability of thin reinforced concrete pipe ... Tests of Water-tightness of Reinforced Concrete Pipe on the Umatilla ..."

6. The Catskill Water Supply of New York City: History, Location, Sub-surface by Lazarus White (1913)
"Test of tightness of Concrete Lining. A very interesting test was made on the Wallkill siphon to ascertain the tightness of the concrete lining against ..."

7. The Design of Walls, Bins, and Grain Elevators by Milo Smith Ketchum (1911)
"WATER-tightness. — Concrete under ordinary conditions is permeable to water, but may be rendered water-tight in several different ways: (1) Use such ..."

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