[W/K] :: tightness

  Tightness \Tight"ness\, n.
     The quality or condition of being tight.
     [1913 Webster]

  tightness
       n 1: a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of
            credit [syn: stringency]
       2: extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess, niggardliness,
           niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness,
           closeness]
       3: lack of movement or room for movement [syn: tautness]
          [ant: looseness]

  107 Moby Thesaurus words for "tightness":
     Jim Crow, adhesiveness, alien, apartheid, avarice, bullheadedness,
     cheapness, chinchiness, chintziness, closefistedness, closeness,
     cohesiveness, color bar, confinement, consistency, crowdedness,
     division, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, exiguity, fewness,
     firmness, foreigner, gluiness, glutinosity, gumminess, hair,
     hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, hardfistedness, hoarding, illiberality,
     incapaciousness, incommodiousness, infrequency, insularity,
     insulation, isolation, know-nothingism, limitation, meagerness,
     miserliness, narrow gauge, narrowness, nearness, niggardliness,
     obstinacy, out-group, outcast, outsider, parochialism, paucity,
     penny-pinching, persistence, persistency, persona non grata,
     quarantine, race hatred, racial segregation, rarity, renitence,
     renitency, restrictedness, restriction, retention, rigidity,
     rigidness, rigor, scantiness, scarcity, scrimpiness, seclusion,
     segregation, separation, skimpiness, slenderness, smallness,
     snobbishness, snugness, sparseness, sparsity, starchiness,
     stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, stiffness, stinginess, straitness,
     stranger, strictness, stringency, stubbornness, tackiness,
     tautness, tenaciousness, tenacity, tenseness, tension, tensity,
     thinness, tight purse strings, tight squeeze, tightfistedness,
     toughness, ungenerosity, viscidity, viscosity, xenophobia