TIGHTNESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does tightness mean?
• TIGHTNESS (noun)
The noun TIGHTNESS has 5 senses:
1. a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
2. a tight feeling in some part of the body
3. the spatial property of being crowded together
4. extreme stinginess
5. lack of movement or room for movement
Familiarity information: TIGHTNESS used as a noun is common.
Dictionary entry details
• TIGHTNESS (noun)
Meaning:
A state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
stringency; tightness
Hypernyms ("tightness" is a kind of...):
deficiency; lack; want (the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable)
Meaning:
A tight feeling in some part of the body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
tightness; constriction
Context examples:
he felt a constriction in her chest / she felt an alarming tightness in her chest / emotion caused a constriction of his throat
Hypernyms ("tightness" is a kind of...):
feeling (a physical sensation that you experience)
Meaning:
The spatial property of being crowded together
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
compactness; concentration; denseness; density; tightness
Hypernyms ("tightness" is a kind of...):
spacing; spatial arrangement (the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tightness"):
bits per inch; bpi (a measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium)
flux; flux density ((physics) the number of changes in energy flow across a given surface per unit area)
Meaning:
Extreme stinginess
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
niggardness; niggardliness; minginess; tightfistedness; meanness; parsimoniousness; parsimony; tightness; closeness
Hypernyms ("tightness" is a kind of...):
stinginess (a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tightness"):
littleness; pettiness; smallness (lack of generosity in trifling matters)
miserliness (total lack of generosity with money)
Meaning:
Lack of movement or room for movement
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
tautness; tightness
Hypernyms ("tightness" is a kind of...):
immovability; immovableness (not capable of being moved or rearranged)
Antonym:
looseness (movement or space for movement)
