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Princeton's WordNet

  1. stringency, tightnessnoun

    a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit

  2. constriction, tightnessnoun

    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"

  3. concentration, density, denseness, tightness, compactnessnoun

    the spatial property of being crowded together

  4. meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closenessnoun

    extreme stinginess

  5. tightness, tautnessnoun

    lack of movement or room for movement

Wiktionary

  1. tightnessnoun

    The quality or degree of being tight

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tightnessnoun

    Closeness; not looseness.

    Etymology: from tight.

    The bones are inflexible, which arises from the greatness of the number of corpuscles that compose them, and the firmness and tightness of their union. John Woodward, on Fossils.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tightnessnoun

    the quality or condition of being tight

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Tightness in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Tightness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Tightness in a Sentence

  1. Gray Cook:

    Signs of weakness, tightness and balance problems can be early indicators of arthritis and posture issues as well as increased injury risk for athletes and fall risk for the elderly.

  2. John Kilduff:

    To a certain degree, this reduces the economics of storing oil for later delivery, it's also feeds the idea that the supply-demand balance is swinging the other way, from surplus to tightness.

  3. Andy Cohen:

    I was sick with covid quite early on. My symptoms were a slight headache, tightness of the chest and I lost all taste and smell!

  4. Virendra Chauhan:

    For WTI there is tightness at Cushing, which will be supportive over July and August.

  5. Novak Djokovic:

    I managed to finish the match, had a little bit of tightness in my elbow but hopefully everything will be fine for tomorrow.

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    used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner
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