"tightnesses" in the noun sense
1. stringency, tightness
a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
2. constriction, tightness
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
the spatial property of being crowded together
4. meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness
extreme stinginess
5. tightness, tautness
lack of movement or room for movement
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