tightness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tight=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

tightness, n. 

 The quality or condition of being tight.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

tightness

Jim Crow, adhesiveness, alien, apartheid, avarice, bullheadedness, cheapness, chinchiness, chintziness, closefistedness, closeness, cohesiveness, color bar, confinement, consistency, crowdedness, division, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, exiguity, fewness, firmness, foreigner, gluiness, glutinosity, gumminess, hair, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, hardfistedness, hoarding, illiberality, incapaciousness, incommodiousness, infrequency, insularity, insulation, isolation, know-nothingism, limitation, meagerness, miserliness, narrow gauge, narrowness, nearness, niggardliness, obstinacy, out-group, outcast, outsider, parochialism, paucity, penny-pinching, persistence, persistency, persona non grata, quarantine, race hatred, racial segregation, rarity, renitence, renitency, restrictedness, restriction, retention, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, scantiness, scarcity, scrimpiness, seclusion, segregation, separation, skimpiness, slenderness, smallness, snobbishness, snugness, sparseness, sparsity, starchiness, stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, stiffness, stinginess, straitness, stranger, strictness, stringency, stubbornness, tackiness, tautness, tenaciousness, tenacity, tenseness, tension, tensity, thinness, tight purse strings, tight squeeze, tightfistedness, toughness, ungenerosity, viscidity, viscosity, xenophobia