tightness

From tight +‎ -ness.

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tightness (countable and uncountable, plural tightnesses)

1. The quality or degree of being tight.
   • 2001, Ellen Gruenbaum, The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective:

     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.