"tightness" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tightness.wav [Southern-England] Forms: tightnesses [plural]
Etymology: tight + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|tight|ness}} tight + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} tightness (countable and uncountable, plural tightnesses)
  1. The quality or degree of being tight Wikipedia link: tightness Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: chest tightness Translations (the quality of being tight): стегнатост (stegnatost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), сбитост (sbitost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), kitsakas (Estonian), ahtake (Estonian), pingas (Estonian), tihe (Estonian), tihkjas (Estonian), tiukkuus (Finnish), ahtaus (Finnish), étroitesse (French), kesempitan (Indonesian), strettezza (Italian)
    Sense id: en-tightness-en-noun-H2k~yNZf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

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