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Antonyms for tightness
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : tahyt |
Phonetic Transcription : taɪt |
- abundance
- achievement
- adequacy
- advantage
- affluence
- ample
- calm
- calmness
- certainty
- confidence
- contentedness
- ease
- enlargement
- enough
- excess
- expansion
- flexibility
- freedom
- happiness
- health
- help
- ignorance
- increase
- indefiniteness
- indifference
- infirmity
- instability
- lot
- movability
- opening
- openness
- peace
- perfection
- plenty
- relaxation
- release
- relief
- softness
- sparsity
- strength
- strong point
- success
- sufficiency
- surplus
- thinness
- trust
- uncertainty
- unimportance
- weakness
Definition of tightness
Origin :- mid-15c., "dense, close, compact," from Middle English thight, from Old Norse þettr "watertight, close in texture, solid," from Proto-Germanic *thenkhtuz (cf. second element in Old English meteþiht "stout from eating;" Middle High German dihte "dense, thick," German dicht "dense, tight," Old High German gidigan, German gediegen "genuine, solid, worthy"), from PIE root *tenk- "to become firm, curdle, thicken" (cf. Irish techt "curdled, coagulated," Lithuanian tankus "close, tight," Persian tang "tight," Sanskrit tanakti "draws together, contracts").
- Sense of "drawn, stretched" is from 1570s; meaning "fitting closely" (as of garments) is from 1779; that of "evenly matched" (of a contest, bargain, etc.) is from 1828, American English; that of "drunk" is from 1830; that of "close, sympathetic" is from 1956. Tight-assed "unwilling to relax" is attested from 1903. Tight-laced is recorded from 1741 in both the literal and figurative senses. Tight-lipped is first attested 1876.
- As in shortage : noun deficiency
- As in stress : noun physical or mental pressure
- As in stricture : noun constriction
- As in compactness : noun thickness
- As in scantiness : noun shortage
- As in scantness : noun shortage
- As in scarceness : noun shortage
- As in underage : noun shortage
- As in constriction : noun blockage
- As in density : noun bulk, mass
- As in firmness : noun immovability
- The moisture in his eyes deepened and a tightness gripped his throat.
- Extract from : « A Breath of Prairie and other stories » by Will Lillibridge
- Does it make a higher or a lower sound as you increase the tightness?
- Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
- There was a new expression in Arcot's eyes, a tightness about his mouth.
- Extract from : « The Black Star Passes » by John W Campbell
- "We've done our best," there was a tightness in Miss Sallie's voice.
- Extract from : « Where the Souls of Men are Calling » by Credo Harris
- He laid a hand on my shoulder and my arm ached from the tightness of his grip.
- Extract from : « The Four Pools Mystery » by Jean Webster
- The rule of safety, in regard to the tightness of dress, is this.
- Extract from : « A Treatise on Domestic Economy » by Catherine Esther Beecher
- Now that she had decided to talk to Yellow Hair, Redbird felt a tightness in her throat.
- Extract from : « Shaman » by Robert Shea
- There was a tightness in his throat; his head throbbed and hurt.
- Extract from : « Sunlight Patch » by Credo Fitch Harris
- The sheer joy of the thing brought a tightness to my throat, and I sniffled.
- Extract from : « Inside John Barth » by William W. Stuart
- But a tightness gathered about my heart, for I could sniff what was coming.
- Extract from : « The Prairie Child » by Arthur Stringer
Synonyms for tightness
- affliction
- agony
- alarm
- albatross
- anxiety
- apprehensiveness
- astringency
- binding
- body
- burden
- choking
- closeness
- clutch
- compactness
- compression
- concentration
- concretion
- consistency
- constraint
- contraction
- cramp
- crowdedness
- crunch
- curtailment
- dearth
- defalcation
- defect
- deficiency
- deficit
- denseness
- density
- disquiet
- disquietude
- distention
- draw
- dread
- durability
- expectancy
- extension
- failure
- fear
- fearfulness
- ferment
- flutter
- force
- frequency
- hardship
- hassle
- heat
- heaviness
- impatience
- impediment
- impenetrability
- inadequacy
- insufficiency
- intensity
- lack
- lapse
- leanness
- limitation
- massiveness
- misgiving
- mistrust
- narrowing
- nervous tension
- nervousness
- oppression
- overextension
- passion
- paucity
- pinch
- poverty
- pressure
- protraction
- pull
- quantity
- reduction
- restlessness
- restraint
- restriction
- scantiness
- scantness
- scarceness
- scarcity
- shortcoming
- shortfall
- shrinking
- solidity
- solidness
- soundness
- spring
- squeezing
- stability
- steadiness
- stenosis
- strain
- strangulation
- strength
- stretch
- stricture
- substantiality
- tautness
- tenseness
- tension
- tensity
- thickness
- tightening
- tightness
- traction
- trauma
- trepidation
- trial
- underage
- urgency
- want
- weakness
- worry
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