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Meaning of "straitness" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF STRAITNESS

ˈstreɪtnəs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STRAITNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Straitness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES STRAITNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of straitness in the English dictionary

The definition of straitness in the dictionary is narrowness, especially.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STRAITNESS

airtightness · cognateness · connateness · definiteness · explicitness · exquisiteness · finiteness · inappropriateness · inchoateness · indefiniteness · innateness · insensateness · irateness · mediateness · oblateness · ornateness · plicateness · prolateness · up-to-dateness · watertightness

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STRAITNESS

straining beam · straining piece · strains · straint · strait · Strait of Canso · Strait of Dover · Strait of Gibraltar · Strait of Juan de Fuca · Strait of Magellan · Strait of Otranto · Strait of Tiran · strait-laced · straiten · straitened · straitjacket · straitlacedly · straitlacedness · straitly · straits

WORDS THAT END LIKE STRAITNESS

alertness · brightness · business · correctness · expert witness · eyewitness · fitness · greatness · hotness · lightness · physical fitness · political correctness · promptness · robustness · shortness · softness · sweetness · tartness · tightness · wetness · witness

Synonyms and antonyms of straitness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «straitness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STRAITNESS

Find out the translation of straitness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of straitness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «straitness» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

狭窄
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

apuro
570 millions of speakers
en

English

straitness
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

straitness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الضيق
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

стеснении
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

aperto
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

দেহ ভোজন
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

étroitesse
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Straitness
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Bedrängnis
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

狭さ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

straitness
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Straitness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

straitness
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

நெருக்கத்தினின்று
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

उद्दीष्टे
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

straitness
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

distretta
65 millions of speakers
pl

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ściśnieniu
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

утиску
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

straitness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

straitness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

benoudheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

straitness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

trangt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of straitness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STRAITNESS»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about straitness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRAITNESS»

Discover the use of straitness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to straitness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Concordance of the Qur'an: Extracted from the M.H. Shakir ...
2:280 And if (the debtor) is in straitness. then let there be postponement until 3: l34 Those who spend (benevolently) in ease as well as in straitness, and those 4: 65 then do not find any straitness in their hearts as to what you have decided 7:2  ...
‎2007
2
Arcana Coelestia: The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy ...
That hereby is signified oy reason of a state near desperation, appears from the signification of straitness of spirit, ... for they who are in that state are in straitness of spirit ; that that state is signified by the burden imposed on the sons of Israel by  ...
Emanuel Swedenborg, 1871
3
Works
For straitness of spirit" — That hereby is signified by reason of a state near desperation, appears from the signification of straitness of spirit, as denoting a state near desperation, for they who are in that state, are in straitness of spirit ; that that ...
Emanuel Swedenborg, 1834
4
ARCANA CCELESTIA
For straitness of spirit" — that hereby is signified by reason of a state near desperation, appears from the signification of straitness of spirit, as denoting a state near desperation, for they who are in that state, are in straitness of spirit; that that ...
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG, 1800
5
Heavenly arcana which are in the sacred scripture or word of ...
And Jacob feared exceedingly, and he had strait- ness" — that this signifies the state when it is changed, appears from this, that fear and straitness are the first ( beginning) of temptations, and that they precede when the state is inverted or ...
Emanuel Swedenborg, 1843
6
Encyclopaedia perthensis, or, Universal dictionary of the ...
The town was bad to besiege by reason of the straitness of all the places. a Maccab. xii. — }t is a great error, and a straitness of mind, if any man think that nations have nothing to do one with another, except there be an union in sovereignty, ...
‎1816
7
I Never Knew That Was in the Bible
STRAITNESS. “Strait” as an adjective means “tight”or“narrow,” andasanounmeans “a tight or narrow place.” Geographically, the noun isappliedtoany narrow waterway connecting two large bodies of water. Biographically, it may be applied to ...
Martin Manser, 2000
8
Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament
Despise thine own spirit, receive the Spirit of God. Let not thy spirit fear, lest, when the Spirit of God shall have begun to dwell in thee, it suffer straitness in thy body. When the Spirit of God shall have begun to dwell in thy body, He will not drive ...
Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), 1845
9
Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament: S. John, ...
Despise thine own spirit, receive the Spirit of God. Let not thy spirit fear, lest, when the Spirit of God shall have begun to dwell in thee, it suffer straitness in thy body. When the Spirit of God shall have begun to dwell in thy body, He will not drive ...
Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Richard Gell MacMullen, 1854
10
Beatitude of the Righteous
Psalm 106: 3 righteousness, it will be insincere and very unfair if we cover this aspect of God—Straitness—Judgment. Now, this is clarity for as many who think that God so loves, that he does not judge. O Yes! God is loving, he is merciful, ...
Olushina T. Olotu, 2007
REFERENCE
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