tightness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From tight + -ness.

--there was a tightness like knotted whipcord about her throat; "That's--not the worst!" — That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day, Richard Dehan
I felt only a certain tightness in the joints of my fingers, and even this discomfort soon disappeared. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne
Come at noon and see if you can stretch out wider This thing that troubles her, loosen its tightness." — Lysistrata, Aristophanes

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