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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TIGHTNESS, n. Closeness of joints; compactness; straitness.
1. Neatness, as in dress.
2. Parsimoniousness; closeness in dealing.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

noun see tight I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tightness Tight"ness, n. The quality or condition of being tight.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see tight

Moby Thesaurus

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