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Narrowness vs Tightness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between narrowness and tightness

is that narrowness is the state of being narrow while tightness is the quality or degree of being tight.

narrowness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) the state of being narrow
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , presently, then, I felt the stiff insertion between the yielding, divided lips of the wound, now open for life; where the narrowness no longer put me to intolerable pain, and afforded my lover no more difficulty than what heighten'd his pleasure, in the strict embrace of that tender, warm sheath, round the instrument it was so delicately adjusted to}}
  • (countable) a constriction

    • Antonyms

    *(state of being narrow) broadness, wideness

    tightness

    English

    Noun

  • The quality or degree of being tight