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Extreme stinginess
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tightness
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Word definitions for tightness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tightness \Tight"ness\, n. The quality or condition of being tight.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality or degree of being tight
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit [syn: stringency ] extreme stinginess [syn: meanness , minginess , niggardliness , niggardness , parsimony , parsimoniousness , tightfistedness , closeness ] lack of movement or room for ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tightness may refer to: In mathematics , Tightness of (a collection of) measures is a concept in measure (and probability), theory in mathematics Tightness (topology) is also a cardinal function used in general topology In economics , Tightness refers to ...
Usage examples of tightness.
A quick twist of her fingers clasped the highest agraffe on her pourpoint, closing the vest to an uncomfortable tightness.
They amounted in value to sixty thousand francs, but she could not dispose of them on the Paris Exchange owing to the tightness in the money market.
Nylan said, one hand massaging the back of his neck, hoping that easing the tightness would help his headache.
Again he draws out, and again enters, till the friction caused by the luscious tightness of the rich flesh which clasps tightly his foaming pego causes such delicious sensations that he is no longer master of himself.
Education as socialization influences students simply to accept the tightness of our society.
Another shudder coursed through her, and she tightened her hold on his hands, her breath catching as she flexed her hips, her hot, wet tightness gripping him, stroking him, drawing him closer and closer.
A disgusting feeling of nausea, a kind of vapourish tightness behind his nose.
His jaw was hard, and there was a tightness in his expression that Shafter read as well as he read the low-hung, tied-down guns.
I buried my face against his shoulder, and that hot, hot tightness spilled out of my eyes, and my lips.
She was sure it was very unchristian, and unfeminine to hate anyone this way, and yet she felt it with a depth and Tightness she could not deny.
The tightness in his loins ached with the force of his unspilled seed.
And yet the man who studied him more closely might discern a certain firmness of jaw and grim tightness about the lips which would warn him that there were depths beyond, and that this pleasant, brown-haired young Irishman might conceivably leave his mark for good or evil upon any society to which he was introduced.
On another night, I would have asked for more foreplay to make that horrible tightness loose, but tonight I wanted to feel him push his way in.
Nen Yim felt a tightness in her throat that had nothing to do with the hard-shelled variety of gnullith she had inserted there to pass the air from the lungworm coiled on her back.
He hoisted his buttocks onto the bottom step of the landing and removed his mask, blinking his eyes to adjust to the eerie strangeness of the light The tightness of the wetsuit began to irritate his arm.