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Meaning of tightness

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  tightness
      n 1: a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of
           credit [syn: {stringency}, {tightness}]
      2: 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}, {tightness}]
      3: the spatial property of being crowded together [syn:
         {concentration}, {density}, {denseness}, {tightness},
         {compactness}] [ant: {dispersion}, {distribution}]
      4: extreme stinginess [syn: {meanness}, {minginess},
         {niggardliness}, {niggardness}, {parsimony},
         {parsimoniousness}, {tightness}, {tightfistedness},
         {closeness}]
      5: lack of movement or room for movement [syn: {tightness},
         {tautness}] [ant: {looseness}, {play}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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