Origin: Germanic Old English suffix
Tightness has 6 different meanings across 1 category:
a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
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"
the spatial property of being crowded together
extreme stinginess
The quality or degree of being tight