| NOUN | state | tightness, stringency | a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage / shortage of credit |
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| cognition | tightness, constriction | a tight feeling in some part of the body | |
| attribute | tightness, concentration, density, denseness, compactness | the spatial property of being crowded together | |
| attribute | tightness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, closeness | extreme / extreme stinginess | |
| attribute | tightness, tautness | lack of movement or room for movement |
| Sounds | tay'tnahs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | A state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage / shortage of credit. | |
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| Synonym | stringency | |
| Broader | lack, deficiency, want | The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable |
| Spanish | escasez | |
| Catalan | escassesa, escassetat | |
| Adjectives | tight | affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow |
| Meaning | A tight feeling in some part of the body. | |
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| Example | "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest" | |
| Synonym | constriction | |
| Broader | feeling | A physical sensation that you experience |
| Adjectives | tight | closely constrained or constricted or constricting |
| Meaning | The spatial property of being crowded together. | |
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| Synonyms | concentration, density, denseness, compactness | |
| Broader | spacing, spatial arrangement | The property possessed by an array of things that have space between them |
| Opposite | distribution, dispersion | The spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume |
| Spanish | concentración, densidad | |
| Catalan | concentració, densitat | |
| Adjectives | tight | set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration |
| Meaning | extreme / extreme stinginess. | |
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| Synonyms | meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, closeness | |
| Narrower | miserliness | Total lack of generosity / generosity with money |
| pettiness, littleness, smallness | lack of generosity / generosity in trifling matters | |
| Broader | stinginess | A lack of generosity / generosity |
| Spanish | mezquindad | |
| Catalan | mesquinesa | |
| Adjectives | tight | (used of persons or behavior / behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity / generosity |
| Meaning | lack of movement or room for movement. | |
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| Synonym | tautness | |
| Broader | immovability, immovableness | not capable of being moved or rearranged |
| Opposite | looseness, play | movement or space for movement |
| Spanish | tensión, tirantez | |
| Catalan | tensió, tibantor | |
| Adjectives | tight | pulled or drawn tight |
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