Difference between Tightness and Meanness

Tightness

Part of speech: noun

Definition: the quality of being tight

Meanness

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.A mean act; as, to be guilty of a meanness.

Example sentence: You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.