Tightness

n.

1.

The quality or condition of being tight.

Noun	1.	tightness - a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit Synonyms: stringency
	2.	tightness - extreme stinginess Synonyms: minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, tightfistedness, meanness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, closeness
	3.	tightness - lack of movement or room for movement Synonyms: tautness Antonyms: looseness, play - movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel"

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

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