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Definition: Tightness |
TightnessNoun1. A state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit. 2. Extreme stinginess. 3. Lack of movement or room for movement. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tightness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
Synonyms: TightnessSynonyms: closeness (n), meanness (n), minginess (n), niggardliness (n), niggardness (n), parsimoniousness (n), parsimony (n), stringency (n), tautness (n), tightfistedness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: looseness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Junction | Closeness, tightness; Adjective: coherence; combination. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tightness |
| English words defined with "tightness": phimosis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tightness": ASSEMBLY INSPECTOR ♦ CANOE INSPECTOR, FINAL, COIL-REWIND-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ fume fever, FUSE-CUP EXPANDER ♦ INSPECTOR, ASSEMBLY, INSPECTOR, CASING ♦ Monday fever, Monday morning asthma, Monday syndrome, Monday tightness ♦ pipe prover ♦ SEWER-LINE REPAIRER ♦ TOOL-MAINTENANCE WORKER ♦ WIRE-WRAPPING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Republic is one of those words that makes me tight in the throat - the same tightness a man gets when his baby takes his first step or his first baby shaves and makes his first sound as a man. Some words can give you a feeling that makes your heart warm (The Alamo; writing credit: James Edward Grant) In these hours he can feel his body tightening, but it's a tightness that does not come from lack of confidence, it's the pressure of the last waiting (Day of the Fight; writing credit: Robert Rein) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The implants may cause breast tenderness or a feeling of tightness. (references) | |
Occasionally, patients have chest pain and a feeling of tightness in the chest. (references) | ||
This contraction causes stiffness or tightness of the muscles and may interfere with gait, movement, and speech. (references) | ||
Business | Given the tightness in Mexican credit markets in 2000 and beyond, financing may make or break sales opportunities. (references) | |
Economic History | Norway | Looking to 2001-2002, annual wage growth will likely remain in the four percent range if labor market tightness continues. (references) |
Political Economy | HONG KONG | Relative labor market tightness and high job turnover have spurred continuing improvements in working conditions as employers compete for available workers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tightness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tightness" is used about 119 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 119 | 29,501 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tightness": Monday tightness ♦ tightness in the air. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
chest tightness | 60 | helium tightness | 3 |
tightness in chest | 41 | tightness | 3 |
in throat tightness | 12 | allergy in throat tightness | 2 |
muscle tightness | 10 | calf tightness | 2 |
throat tightness | 9 | stomach tightness | 2 |
vaginal tightness | 9 | cause chest tightness | 2 |
neck tightness | 6 | head in tightness | 2 |
control tightness | 6 | chest pain tightness | 2 |
vagina tightness | 4 | after hamstring muscle sitting tightness | 2 |
chest in pressure tightness | 4 | jaw tightness | 2 |
in neck tightness | 3 | calf muscle tightness | 2 |
around mouth tightness | 3 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "tightness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | padepërtueshmëri (impenetrability, impermeability, inscrutability), ngushtësi (narrowness). (various references) | |
Arabic | ندرة (drought, famine, paucity, penury, poverty, rareness, rarity, scarceness), وعورة (hardness, roughness, ruggedness, scarp, steepness), ضيق (bottleneck, canyon, choke, close, contract, cramped, hardship, incommodious, malaise, narrow, narrowness, need, oppression, parochial, pinch, scrimpy, shrink, slit, straiten, straits, strict, succinctness, tag, tight, tighten), صرامة (austerity, firmness, fortitude, frankness, hardness, obduracy, rigidity, rigor, rigorism, rigour, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency, toughness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стегнатост (conciseness, tidiness, trim), сбитост (brevity, briefness, compression, conciseness, concision, condensation, firmness, terseness), напрегнатост (intension, intensity, strenuousness, stretch, suspense, tension, tensity). (various references) | |
Chinese | 紧紧 (tight, tightly). (various references) | |
Czech | tìsnost (narrowness), sevřenost, přísnost (austerity, rigour, severity, sternness, stiffness, strictness, stringency, toughness), napjatost (intension). (various references) | |
Danish | tæthed (abundance, compactness, consolidation, density, level of compaction, linear density, recording density, relative density, state of compaction). (various references) | |
Dutch | geslotenheid (closeness), dichtheid (abundance, compactness, consolidation, density, level of compaction, mass per unit volume, optimum density, quality, relative density, rho, sett, specific gravity, state of compaction). (various references) | |
Esperanto | spirĝeno (tightness of the chest). (various references) | |
Finnish | tiukkuus (strictness), tiiviys (closeness, compactness, denseness, density), ahtaus (cramped conditions, narrowness, stowage). (various references) | |
French | sévérité, rigueur, raideur, dureté, compacité, étroitesse, étanchéité. (various references) | |
German | Straffheit (erectness, firmness, strictness, tautness, tenseness), dichtheit (denseness, solidity, thickness). (various references) | |
Greek | σφικτότησ, σφικτότητα, σφίξιμο (clasp, clench, constriction, gripe, pinching, squeeze, strangulation, tightening), στεγανότητα (watertightness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתיחות (elasticity, strain, stress, stretch, tenseness, tension), אטימות (dullness, impenetrability, obtuseness, opacity, opaqueness, waterproof), "חיסות (compactness, compression, density, thickness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szorosság (fastness, tautness), feszülés (strain, stretch, stretching, tension). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kesempitan (narrowness). (various references) | |
Italian | tenuta (air-tight, capacity, estate, roadholding, uniform), tensione (strain, stress, stretch, tension, voltage), strettezza (lack, narrowness, scantness, scarcity, shortage, skimpiness), ermeticit . (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 梗塞 (block, infarction, stoppage). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "うそく (best student, block, high gear, high speed, infarction, leading disciple, luminous flux, restraint, restriction, school regulations, speed of light, stoppage). (various references) | |
Manx | chennid (distress, drive, narrowness, press, strain, tension). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ightnesstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | impermeabilidade (impermeability), estancamento. (various references) | |
Romanian | etanşeitate. (various references) | |
Russian | теснота (congestion), напряженность (arduousness, constraint, intension, intensity, strenuousness, tenseness, tension, tensions, tensity, uptightness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zatvorenost, uzanost, stegnutost, čvrstina (firmness, hardness, stoutness, strength, sturdiness, substance, substantiality, tenacity). (various references) | |
Spanish | tirantez (friction, strain, stringency, tenseness, tension), tensión de algo (haughtiness, pull), tacañería (meanness, miserliness, skimpiness, stinginess), opresión (oppression), lo hermético, lo estanco, lo apretado, impermeabilidad (impermeability), estrechez (closeness, distress, misery, narrowness, strictness, trouble, want), estanqueidad, escasez (dearth, famine, lack, meanness, need, parsimony, paucity, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, sparseness, stinginess, want). (various references) | |
Swedish | åtdragning. (various references) | |
Thai | ความแน่น, ความตระหนี่. (various references) | |
Turkish | zorluk (adversity, arduousness, complexity, complication, difficulty, entanglement, gaff, grueling, gruelling, hardness, hardship, hassle, hobble, rigor, rigour, rough, strain, stumbling block, toughness), yokluk (absence, absentness, dearth, exiguity, failure, famine, hardship, lack, neediness, nonappearance, non-appearance, nonexistence, non-existence, nudity, penury, poverty, privation, shortage, Strait, straits, want), sızdırmazlık (impermeability, leakproofing), sıkılık (fastness, firmness, stringency), kesatlık (flatness, slackness, stagnancy, stagnation, tie up), gerginlik (distemper, escalation, frayed temper, jitters, strain, stress, stretch, tenseness, tension, the jitters), geçirmezlik (impermeability, imperviousness), darlık (closeness, denseness, drought, exiguity, grayness, greyness, narrowness, pressure, shortness, straits, stringency), azlık (exiguity, fewness, littleness, minority, paucity, scantiness, scantness, scarcity, slimness, spareness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скупість (cheeseparing, closeness, covetousness, illiberality, meanness, miserliness, parsimony), щільність (closeness, consistence, density, massiveness, turbidity), напруженість (intension, intensity, tension), жвавість (agility, alacrity, alertness, animation, liveliness, mercuriality, nimbleness, oomph, quickness, sparkle, starch, verve, vigor, vigour, vivacity). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính khan hiếm, tính không thấm rỉ tính chất chật, tính chất kín, tính chất căng thẳng tính chất khó khăn. (various references) | |
Welsh | tynder (tension). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | pu. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | angustia. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tightness": tightnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tightness": airtightness, gastightness, uptightness, watertightness. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tightness": airtightnesses, gastightnesses, uptightnesses, watertightnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tightness" (pronounced tī"tnus) |
| 5 | -ī" t n u s | brightness, forthrightness, lightness, politeness, rightness, whiteness. |
| 4 | -t n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, alertness, appropriateness, astuteness, bluntness, compactness, completeness, correctness, cuteness, directness, earnestness, eyewitness, faintness, fastness, fitness, flatness, gauntness, greatness, ineptness, inertness, lateness, lightfastness, neatness, quietness, remoteness, robustness, separateness, shortness, softness, steadfastness, stoutness, sweetness, swiftness, tartness, unpleasantness, vastness, wetness, witness. |
| 3 | -n u s | aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, arbitrariness, assertiveness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, bagginess, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, competitiveness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, crookedness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, exogenous, fairness, farsightedness, fickleness, firmness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, goodness, governess, graciousness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, handedness, happiness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, madness, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, nervousness, newness, niceness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, queasiness, quickness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, riskiness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, solitariness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, tardiness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, timeliness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-n-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: settings, tightens. | |
-2 letters: ingests, nighest, setting, signets, sithens, testing, theists, tighten. | |
-3 letters: eights, gneiss, heists, hinges, ingest, insets, neighs, nights, shiest, shines, sights, signet, singes, sitten, steins, stings, stints, tenths, testis, thegns, theins, theist, thesis, things, tights, tinges, tithes. | |
-4 letters: eight, gents, gests, gists, heist, hents, hests, hinge, hints, hists, inset, neigh, neist, nests. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-n-s-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: straightens, tightnesses, uptightness. | |
+3 letters: airtightness, ethnologists, gastightness, heartstrings, housesitting, spaghettinis, straightness, unsightliest, yesternights. | |
+4 letters: guttersnipish, lightfastness, straighteners, technologists, uptightnesses. | |
+5 letters: airtightnesses, forthrightness, gastightnesses, straightnesses, watertightness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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