Meaning of tightness In English

• 0 the quality of fitting the body too closely:

  • the tightness of the waistband

  • One of the typical symptoms of anxiety is a feeling of tightness in the chest.

  • There was a strange tightness in her voice.

• 1 the quality of being held or kept together firmly:

  • Check the tightness of the screw.

  • Pegs are used to adjust the tightness of the strings.

• 2 the situation when people in a competition, race, etc. are of a similar standard so it is difficult to know who will win:

  • the tightness of the presidential race

• 3 the quality of curving sharply, not gradually or loosely:

  • the tightness of the curls

• 4 the quality of having a close relationship and knowing each other very well:

  • the tightness of the military community

• 5 the fact that there is not much of something such as money, space, or time:

  • We are constrained by the tightness of the budget.

• 6 (of controls, rules) the quality of severely limiting what can happen:

  • the tightness of food hygiene regulations

• 7 (of a performance or band) the quality of being exact and of a high standard because people work well together:

  • The orchestra played with the tightness and precision of a military band.

• 8 the quality of being unwilling to spend money:

  • She left, fed up with his affairs and his tightness with their household money.