Noun

• S: (n) stringency, tightness (a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit)
• S: (n) 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"
• S: (n) concentration, density, denseness, tightness, compactness (the spatial property of being crowded together)
• S: (n) meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness (extreme stinginess)
• S: (n) tightness, tautness (lack of movement or room for movement)