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Tightness

The quality or condition of being tight.

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Deficiency 76% connected

The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.

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Feeling 76% connected

of Feel

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Immovability 76% connected

The quality or state of being immovable; fixedness; steadfastness; as, immovability of a heavy body; immovability of purpose.

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Immovableness 76% connected

Quality of being immovable.

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Lack 76% connected

Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.

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Stinginess 76% connected

The quality or state of being stingy.

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Want 76% connected

The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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Littleness 76% connected

The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc.

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Pettiness 76% connected

The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.

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Smallness 76% connected

The quality or state of being small.

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Dense 74% connected

Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense c…

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Dense 74% connected

Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense c…

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Parsimonious 74% connected

Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.

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Parsimonious 74% connected

Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.

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Taut 74% connected

Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.

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Taut 74% connected

Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.

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Tight 74% connected

of Tie

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Tight 74% connected

of Tie

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Synonym 10

Closeness 92% connected

The state of being close.

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Compactness 92% connected

The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Concentration 92% connected

The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.

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Constriction 92% connected

The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.

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Density 92% connected

The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity.

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Meanness 92% connected

The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.

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Niggardliness 92% connected

The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess.

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Niggardness 92% connected

Niggardliness.

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Parsimony 92% connected

Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; -- generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stringency 92% connected

The quality or state of being stringent.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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