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1. A state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
   - stringency
    
2. A tight feeling in some part of the body
   "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest";
   - constriction
    
3. The spatial property of being crowded together
   - concentration, density, denseness, compactness
    
4. Extreme stinginess
   - meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, closeness
    
5. Lack of movement or room for movement
   - tautness

Type of: deficiency, feeling, immovability, immovableness, lack, spacing, spatial arrangement, stinginess [informal], want

Antonym: looseness

Encyclopedia: Tightness