tightness
nounEtymology From tight + -ness.
1
The quality or degree of being tight.
- The preference for tightness during intercourse is so well known in Western culture that U.S. obstetricians even have a term for the extra stitch they often perform when doing episiotomy repairs following childbirth: the "husband's stitch." The husband's stitch is intended to produce a smaller vaginal opening, to counteract the natural stretching of the tissues from sexual activity and childbirth and even to make the opening more constricted than it might have been before.2001, Ellen Gruenbaum, The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective:
- Derived terms
- chest tightness