[f. prec. + -NESS.] Cramped quality; narrowness resulting from restraint.
1858. Sat. Rev., 21 Aug., 193/1. The crudeness and crampedness of monkish annalists.
1889. Pall Mall Gaz., 4 Nov., 2/1. There is always an irritating dead-levelness of mediocrity and a sameness of subject and crampedness of treatment in the pictures exhibited.
