tightness

English

Etymology

From tight +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

tightness (countable and uncountable, plural tightnesses)

1. The quality or degree of being tight.
   • 2001, Ellen Gruenbaum, The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective:

     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 vaginal opening, to counteract the natural stretching of the tissues from sexual activity and childbirth and even to make the opening more constricted than it might have been before.

Derived terms

• chest tightness

Translations

the quality of being tight

• Bulgarian: стегнатост (bg) f (stegnatost), сбитост (bg) f (sbitost)
• Estonian: kitsakas, ahtake, pingas, tihe, tihkjas
• Finnish: tiukkuus (fi), ahtaus (fi)
• French: étroitesse (fr)
• Indonesian: kesempitan (id)
• Italian: strettezza (it)