1. Lack of movement or room for movement
   "The tightness of her muscles after the workout left her sore";
   - tautness
    
2. The spatial property of being crowded together
   "The tightness of the spaces made it difficult to park";
   - concentration, density, denseness, compactness
    
3. A tight feeling in some part of the body
   "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest";
   - constriction
    
4. A state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
   "The credit market tightness made it difficult for small businesses to secure loans";
   - stringency
    
5. Extreme stinginess
   "Her tightness extended to reusing tea bags multiple times";
   - meanness, minginess [informal], niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, closeness
    
6. Precision or exactness
   "The tightness of the choreography was impressive"

Type of: deficiency, feeling, immovability, immovableness, lack, spacing, spatial arrangement, stinginess [informal], want

Encyclopedia: Tightness