tightness

Meanings

Plural: tightnesses

Noun

• a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
• a tight feeling in some part of the body
  • "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest"
• the spatial property of being crowded together
• extreme stinginess
• lack of movement or room for movement
• The quality or degree of being tight.

Synonyms

closeness, compactness, concentration, constriction, denseness, density, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, stringency, tautness, tightfistedness

Antonyms

distribution, looseness