Usually means: Tightness; not loose or slack.
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  1. tautness: Merriam-Webster
  2. tautness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tautness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tautness: Vocabulary.com
  5. tautness: Wordnik
  6. tautness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tautness: Wiktionary
  8. tautness: Dictionary.com
  9. tautness: Rhymezone
  10. tautness: FreeDictionary.org
  11. tautness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. tautness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tautness: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tautness)

▸ noun:  The property of being taut.

Similar:
tightness, tenseness, tensity, tension, tautologicalness, untightness, tensileness, tensibility, tensility, tanness, more...

Opposite:
slackness, looseness, relaxation

Types:
tight, tense, strained, stiff, rigid, more...

Adjectives:
sudden, certain, gentle, greater, new, muscular, proper, same, dramatic, emotional, nervous

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Similar:
tightness, tenseness, tensity, tension, tautologicalness, untightness, tensileness, tensibility, tensility, tanness, more...

Opposite:
slackness, looseness, relaxation

Types:
tight, tense, strained, stiff, rigid, more...

Adjectives:
sudden, certain, gentle, greater, new, muscular, proper, same, dramatic, emotional, nervous



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