1. (

• stringency ,
• tightness

) a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit ;

2. (

• constriction ,
• tightness

) a tight feeling in some part of the body; "he felt a constriction in her chest"; "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest"; "emotion caused a constriction of his throat" ;

3. (

• concentration ,
• density ,
• denseness ,
• tightness ,
• compactness ,

) the spatial property of being crowded together ;

4. (

• meanness ,
• minginess ,
• niggardliness ,
• niggardness ,
• parsimony ,
• parsimoniousness ,
• tightness ,
• tightfistedness ,
• closeness ,

) extreme stinginess ;

5. (

• tightness ,
• tautness

) lack of movement or room for movement ;