Synonyms of tightness

Noun


1. stringency, tightness, lack, deficiency, want

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

2. constriction, tightness, feeling

usage: 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, compactness, spacing, spatial arrangement

usage: the spatial property of being crowded together

4. meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness, stinginess

usage: extreme stinginess

5. tightness, tautness, immovability, immovableness

usage: lack of movement or room for movement

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