Synonyms of the word

constriction

• n. The act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts.
• n. A narrow part of something; a stricture.
• n. A compression.

bottleneck

• n. The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
• n. In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
• n. Any delay; part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
• v. (transitive) To slow by causing a bottleneck.
• v. (intransitive) To form a bottleneck.

chokepoint

• n. A point at which traffic or other movement can easily become blocked.

coarctation

• n. (medicine) A stenosis, especially of the aorta.
• n. (obsolete) confinement to a narrow space.
• n. (obsolete) pressure; that which presses.

compressing

• v. present participle of compress.

compression

• n. An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
• n. (automotive) The cycle of an internal combustion engine during which the fuel and air mixture is compressed.
• n. (computing) The process by which data is compressed.
• n. (music) The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled.
• n. (astronomy) The deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form.

condensation

• n. The act or process of condensing or of being condensed.
• n. The state of being condensed.
• n. (physics) The conversion of a gas to a liquid.
• n. The condensate so formed.
• n. (chemistry) The reaction of two substances with the simultaneous loss of water or other small molecule.

contraction

• n. A reversible reduction in size.
• n. (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
• n. (biology) A shortening of a muscle when it is used.
• n. (medicine) A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
• n. (linguistics) A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such…
• n. (English orthography) A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the…
• n. (medicine) Contracting a disease.
• n. (phonetics) Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
• n. The acquisition of something, generally negative.
• n. (medicine) A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.

feeling

• adj. Emotionally sensitive.
• adj. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
• n. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
• n. Emotion; impression.
• n. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
• n. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
• n. Intuition.
• n. An opinion, an attitude.
• v. present participle of feel.

narrowing

• v. present participle of narrow.
• n. The process of becoming narrow.
• n. The part of a stocking that is narrowed.

tightness

• n. The quality or degree of being tight.