tightness
tightness noun: the quality or degree of being tight.
Noun
tightness (countable and uncountable, plural tightnesses)
- The quality or degree of being tight.
- 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...2001, Ellen Gruenbaum, The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective
tightness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
tightness in Hindi
- tightness
- तंगी taṅgī
tightness in Tamil
- tightness, hardness, rigidity
- பிகு piku
tightness in Marathi
- tightness
- घट्टपणा ghaṭṭapaṇā
tightness in Urdu
- کھچاؤ
More languagesFewer languages
- tightness in Telugu
- బింకము biṅkamu
- tightness in Malayalam
- ഇറുക്കം, മുറുക്കം
- tightness in Kannada
- ಬಿಗುಹು
- tightness in Indonesian
- kesempitan
Forms of tightness
| plural | tightnesses |
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Origin of tightness
From tight + -ness.
Words formed from tightness
Questions about tightness
- What does tightness mean?
- Tightness means the quality or degree of being tight.
- What is tightness in Hindi?
- Tightness in Hindi is तंगी (taṅgī). See Tightness meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tightness?
- Tightness is a noun.
- What is the plural of tightness?
- The plural of tightness is tightnesses.
Words near tightness in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tightness (page history and authors); तंगी (Hindi) (page history and authors); பிகு (Tamil) (page history and authors); घट्टपणा (Marathi) (page history and authors); tightness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); బింకము (Telugu) (page history and authors); tightness (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tightness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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