tightness
1. extreme stinginess
• Syn:
meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony,
parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, closeness
• Derivationally related forms:
close (for: closeness), tightfisted (for: tightfistedness), tight, parsimonious (for: parsimoniousness), parsimonious (for: parsimony), niggardly (for: niggardliness), mingy (for: minginess), mean (for: meanness)
• Hypernyms:
stinginess
• Hyponyms:
pettiness, littleness, smallness, miserliness
2. the spatial property of being crowded together
• Syn:
concentration, density, denseness, compactness
• Ant:
distribution (for: concentration)
• Derivationally related forms:
tight, dense (for: denseness), dense (for: density), concentrate (for: concentration)
• Hypernyms:
spacing, spatial arrangement
3. 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
• Syn:
constriction
• Derivationally related forms:
tight
• Hypernyms:
feeling
4. a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
• Syn:
stringency
• Derivationally related forms:
tight
• Hypernyms:
lack, deficiency, want
5. lack of movement or room for movement
• Syn:
tautness
• Ant:
looseness
• Derivationally related forms:
taut (for: tautness), tight
• Hypernyms:
immovability, immovableness
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