narrowness

English

narrowness (countable and uncountable, plural narrownesses)

(uncountable) the state of being narrow
- 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
  presently, then, I felt the stiff insertion between the yielding, divided lips of the wound, now open for life; where the narrowness no longer put me to intolerable pain, and afforded my lover no more difficulty than what heighten'd his pleasure, in the strict embrace of that tender, warm sheath, round the instrument it was so delicately adjusted to
(countable) a constriction

state of being narrow

Armenian: նեղություն (hy) (neġutʻyun)
Catalan: estretor f
Finnish: kapeus (fi), ahtaus (fi), täpäryys (fi)
French: étroitesse (fr)
German: Enge (de), Beschränktheit (de)
Alemannic German: Schmeeli
Greek: στενότητα (el) (stenótita)
Ancient: στενότης f (stenótēs)
Japanese: 狭さ (semasa), 狭小 (ja) (kyōshō), 狭窄 (ja) (kyōsaku), 狭隘 (ja) (kyōai)
Latin: angustia f
Macedonian: тесно́тија f (tesnótija), те́снота f (tésnota), сте́снетост f (stésnetost)
Middle English: narwenesse
Portuguese: estreiteza (pt) f
Spanish: estrechez (es)
Turkish: darlık (tr) sg

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