Tightness

Quick meaning: Tightness is a noun meaning The quality or degree of being tight.

Meaning

The quality or degree of being tight.

Example Sentences

The preference for tightness during intercourse is so well known in Western culture that U.S. obstetricians even have a term for the extra stitch they often perform when doing episiotomy repairs following childbirth: the "husband's stitch." The husband's stitch is intended to produce a smaller vaginal opening, to counteract the natural stretching of the tissues from sexual activity and childbirth and even to make the opening more constricted than it might have been before.

Word Forms

• tightnesses

Synonyms for tightness

Depending on context, synonyms include niggardliness, parsimony, tautness, closeness, parsimoniousness, niggardness.

Antonyms for tightness

Common opposites include play, looseness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tautness, stringency, minginess, closeness, parsimoniousness, parsimony.

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