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Uptight vs Uptightness - What's the difference?

uptight | uptightness |

As nouns the difference between uptight and uptightness

is that uptight is (colloquial) an uptight person while uptightness is the state or quality of being uptight.

As an adjective uptight

is (colloquial) excessively concerned with rules and order.

uptight

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (colloquial) Excessively concerned with rules and order.
    • Don't be so uptight ! You won't go to jail for crossing the street against the light.
  • (colloquial) Sexually repressed.
    • He came from a very uptight religious background, but you wouldn't know that now!
  • (colloquial) Unfriendly and rude.
  • * 1987 , :
    • Withnail: Just because the best tailoring you’ve ever seen is above your fucking appendix doesn’t mean anything.
    Danny: Don’t get uptight with me, man.

    See also

    * anal retentive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (colloquial) An uptight person.

    • uptightness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being uptight
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 9, author=Lee Siegel, title=The Fixer-Upper, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Davis is out to remove the slur of moral uptightness and narrow virtue from Malamuds reputation. }}