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Tautness

noun
1.
The physical condition of being stretched or strained.  Synonyms: tenseness, tension, tensity.  "He could feel the tenseness of her body"
2.
Lack of movement or room for movement.  Synonym: tightness.





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"Tautness" Quotes from Famous Books



... heartbreak. Her gaze fell on a framed photograph, just before her, and she flinched. It was an enlarged snapshot of Stuart Farquaharson. But other pictures more vitally near to her recent past were passing also before her. She felt again the muscles of his forearms snap into tautness as he stood silent under her father's insults. She felt the strength of his embrace calming the panic of her own heart; the touch of the kisses that had brought her both peace and ecstasy and wakened in her latent fires. Surely if, at last, the hot temper had broken ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck


Words linked to "Tautness" :   looseness, tensity, tonus, tension, tonicity, condition, tightness, tone, taut, status, immovableness, immovability


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