(n.) The quality or condition of being tight.

Jim Crow adhesiveness alien apartheid avarice bullheadedness cheapness chinchiness chintziness closefistedness closeness cohesiveness color bar confinement consistency crowdedness division ethnocentrism exclusiveness exiguity fewness firmness foreigner gluiness glutinosity gumminess hair hairbreadth hairsbreadth hardfistedness hoarding illiberality incapaciousness incommodiousness infrequency insularity insulation isolation know-nothingism limitation meagerness miserliness narrow gauge narrowness nearness obstinacy out-group outcast outsider parochialism paucity penny-pinching persistence persistency persona non grata quarantine race hatred racial segregation rarity renitence renitency restrictedness restriction retention rigidity rigidness rigor scantiness scarcity scrimpiness seclusion segregation separation skimpiness slenderness smallness snobbishness snugness sparseness sparsity starchiness stick-to-itiveness stickiness stiffness stinginess straitness stranger strictness stringency stubbornness tackiness tautness tenaciousness tenacity tenseness tension tensity thinness tight purse strings tight squeeze tightfistedness toughness ungenerosity viscidity viscosity xenophobia