0 the quality of being tight or completely stretched:
1 the quality of being excited or nervous, or of causing someone to feel like this:
He carries himself with a certain tautness, a live-wire constantly on the verge of snapping.
The music is even more thrilling, with a tautness and tension that are spine-chilling.
2 (in writing or speech) the quality of being controlled, clear, and short:
She did not understand the tautness in the teacher's tone.
The author is first and foremost a poet, and the linguistic tautness of the book reflects this.
The human body contains a multitude of nerves of different lengths and thicknesses, at different degrees of tautness.
This changes the tautness of the patagium, a furry parachute-like membrane that stretches from wrist to ankle.
Mottola says that there was no way to bend a guitar string like that because of the tautness.
Another critic wrote: nothing new to offer as it lacks style, newness or a tautness of a thriller.
Pelvic joint pain in post pregnancy women is thought to be derived from the inability of the stretched out ligaments to return to normal tautness.
According to the plot of the film, the song needed tautness that is exemplified by the tensed violins.
This process is called alpha gamma co-activation, which is what maintains tautness of the muscle spindles.
The narrative could benefit from more tautness.
