noun
1. extreme stinginess
• Syn:
↑meanness, ↑minginess, ↑niggardliness, ↑niggardness, ↑parsimony, ↑parsimoniousness, ↑tightfistedness, ↑closeness
• Derivationally related forms:
↑close (for: ↑closeness), ↑tightfisted (for: ↑tightfistedness), ↑tight, ↑parsimonious (for: ↑parsimoniousness), ↑parsimonious (for: ↑parsimony), ↑niggardly (for: ↑niggardliness), ↑mingy (for: ↑minginess), ↑mean (for: ↑meanness)
• Hypernyms: ↑stinginess
• Hyponyms: ↑pettiness, ↑littleness, ↑smallness, ↑miserliness
2. the spatial property of being crowded together
• Syn: ↑concentration, ↑density, ↑denseness, ↑compactness
• Ant: ↑distribution (for: ↑concentration)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑tight, ↑dense (for: ↑denseness), ↑dense (for: ↑density), ↑concentrate (for: ↑concentration)
• Hypernyms: ↑spacing, ↑spatial arrangement
3. a tight feeling in some part of the body
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he felt a constriction in her chest
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she felt an alarming tightness in her chest
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emotion caused a constriction of his throat
• Syn: ↑constriction
• Derivationally related forms: ↑tight
• Hypernyms: ↑feeling
4. a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
• Syn: ↑stringency
• Derivationally related forms: ↑tight
• Hypernyms: ↑lack, ↑deficiency, ↑want
5. lack of movement or room for movement
• Syn: ↑tautness
• Ant: ↑looseness
• Hypernyms: ↑immovability, ↑immovableness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.