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What is the noun for tightness?

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tights
  1. A close-fitting, sheer or non-sheer skin-tight garment worn principally by women and girls that covers the body completely from the waist down, usually including the feet.
  2. A garment, similar to briefs, worn chiefly by professional wrestlers.
  3. In blasting rock, a piece of unbroken rock within the pay limit of a blast.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “What use is a spunky youth in a jerkin and tights against the likes of The Joker?”
      “Shari developed her talent and her mom thought her little angel was adorable in a tutu and tights!”
      “She rubbed, absent-mindedly at the welt of a scar on her thigh, covered and concealed by tights and a dress.”
tighter
  1. (obsolete or colloquial) A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer; a tightener.
tightening
  1. The act or process of making more tight.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The tightening of my jeans after indulging in a large meal was uncomfortable.”
      “The child's face contorted in a tightening of pain as the doctor examined their fractured arm.”
tightness
  1. The quality or degree of being tight
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Inasmuch as with a great strain, the gut will cut itself through by the extreme tightness of the knot.”
      “Given his tightness with money, it must have been quite a fright to cause him to give up that income.”
      “Sensations of tightness, pain, pressure, and heaviness in the precordium, throat, neck, and jaw have also been reported.”
tightener
  1. Something used to tighten.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Many of his starters will just then be getting back to their best form after getting a tightener in recent races in Europe.”
      “For a correct adjustment of the derailleur there must be a cable tightener register.”
      “The countershaft and tightener are a part of the machine and can be run wherever a belt can be brought to them.”
tightenings
  1. plural of tightening
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Continued dollar strength will depend on stock market reaction to these tightenings.”
      Tightenings of the uterus, known as Braxton Hicks contractions, become stronger in the third trimester.”
tighteners
  1. plural of tightener
tightnesses
tighters
  1. plural of tighter
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