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English noun: tightness | |||
| 1. | tightness (state) a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit | ||
| Synonyms | stringency | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | deficiency, lack, want | ||
| 2. | tightness (cognition) a tight feeling in some part of the body | ||
| Samples | He felt a constriction in her chest. She felt an alarming tightness in her chest. Emotion caused a constriction of his throat. | ||
| Synonyms | constriction | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | feeling | ||
| 3. | tightness (attribute) the spatial property of being crowded together | ||
| Synonyms | compactness, concentration, denseness, density | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | spacing, spatial arrangement | ||
| Antonyms | dispersion, distribution | ||
| 4. | tightness (attribute) extreme stinginess | ||
| Synonyms | closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | stinginess | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | littleness, miserliness, pettiness, smallness | ||
| 5. | tightness (attribute) lack of movement or room for movement | ||
| Synonyms | tautness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | immovability, immovableness | ||
| Antonyms | looseness, play | ||
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