noun
- A state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit.
- synonyms: stringency
- A tight feeling in some part of the body.
- usage: "he felt a constriction in her chest"; "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest"; "emotion caused a constriction of his throat"
- synonyms: constriction
- The spatial property of being crowded together.
- synonyms: concentration, density, denseness, compactness
- Extreme stinginess.
- synonyms: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, closeness
- Lack of movement or room for movement.
- synonyms: tautness
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