costiveness
Intestinal movement blockage
Costiveness is constipation—difficulty passing stool.
The word extends to any kind of stinginess or reluctance to give: a costiveness with praise, the costiveness of the funding committee.
Both senses share the idea of holding back what should flow freely.
The word is old-fashioned in either sense.
Promotes intestinal evacuation
- fiberPlant-based digestive aid
- stoolBackless sitting furniture
- bowelInternal digestive organ
- blockageObstruction halting movement
impaction · straining · enema · suppository · fecal · irregularity · psyllium · senna
Excessively reluctant to spend
- tightfistedUnwilling to spend freely
- parsimonyExcessive frugality with resources
- penny-pinchingExtreme reluctance to spend
- niggardlyExtremely reluctant to spend
ungenerous · close-fisted · withholding · grudging · scrooge · cheapskate · penurious · mean
Involuntary muscle tightening
- bloatingSwollen, expanded state
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
- strainingExerting intense effort
- heavinessState of being weighty
fullness · abdominal · griping · pressure · ache · pang · tenderness · unease
Restrained in manner
- taciturnHabitually uncommunicative
- uncommunicativeUnwilling to share thoughts
- guardedWary and restrained
- tight-lippedUnwilling to divulge
closemouthed · restrained · withholding · unforthcoming · secretive · laconic · withdrawn · private
State of being unbending
- stubbornnessRefusal to yield
- intransigenceRefusal to compromise
- obduracyStubborn refusal to yield
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
adamant · unbending · immovability · stiffness · uncompromising · doggedness · tenacity · firmness
laxative
Promotes intestinal evacuation
blockage · impaction · straining · enema · suppository · fecal · irregularity · psyllium · senna · prune
miserly
Excessively reluctant to spend
- tightfistedUnwilling to spend freely
- parsimonyExcessive frugality with resources
- penny-pinchingExtreme reluctance to spend
niggardly · ungenerous · close-fisted · withholding · grudging · scrooge · cheapskate · penurious · mean · sparing
cramps
Involuntary muscle tightening
heaviness · fullness · abdominal · griping · pressure · ache · pang · tenderness · unease · malaise
reserved
Restrained in manner
- taciturnHabitually uncommunicative
- uncommunicativeUnwilling to share thoughts
- guardedWary and restrained
tight-lipped · closemouthed · restrained · withholding · unforthcoming · secretive · laconic · withdrawn · private · buttoned-up
rigidity
State of being unbending
- stubbornnessRefusal to yield
- intransigenceRefusal to compromise
- obduracyStubborn refusal to yield
unyielding · adamant · unbending · immovability · stiffness · uncompromising · doggedness · tenacity · firmness · intractability
costivenessgenerosity
Readiness to give freely
liberality · open-handedness · munificence · lavishness · largesse
constipation, constipated, constipate, constipates, costive, constipating