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• n  the physical condition of being stretched or strained
• n  lack of movement or room for movement

• This concern for each painting gives the collection its tautness and also its excitement, particularly when we come across such an oddity of technique as Two Figures in a Landscape .
• Labor has won some big concessions from the Wage Board and removed some of the psychological tautness from the guidelines, thus diminishing the original sense of urgency created by .
• With baseball games, greatness lives in the details and the intangibles: the little cheering guys in the stands, the tautness of the pitcher-batter duels, the wonkish rotisserie .

• tension
• tensity
• tenseness
• tightness

• looseness

Quotes

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• Bruce Springsteen in Boston Globe (registration)
  Something about the density that we stacked up, along with the tautness of the rhythm section, ended up creating a certain sort of dark tension in the music,Springsteen says.