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UK
/tˈɛnsnəs/
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NOUN
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(psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
stress is a vasoconstrictor
he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension -
the physical condition of being stretched or strained
it places great tension on the leg muscles
he could feel the tenseness of her body
How To Use tenseness In A Sentence
- I looked around at the blue sky and felt the beautiful intenseness of biking and running and picked up the pace, deciding I was happier to be running than not running. Tales of an Alderwoman: Recovery and taking time off
- ‘I love the awkwardness of a brainstorm, the tenseness when different ideas come together,’ she says.
- The tenseness that had suddenly appeared on his daughter's face worried him.
- For a moment, she felt stifled within the intenseness of his grasp.
- Literary romanticism, of which Chateaubriand and Madame de Stael were the harbingers, owed its existence to a longing for a greater fulness of thought, a greater intenseness of feeling, a greater appropriateness and adequateness of expression, and, above all, a greater truth to life and nature. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
- McKay walked slowly toward this screen, feeling a growing tenseness.
- But sound is a stroke of a sounding body; and a sounding body is that which has homogeneousness and uniformity, and is easy to be moved, light, smooth, and, by reason of its tenseness and continuity, it is obedient to the stroke; and such is the air. Essays and Miscellanies
- I feel a small but significant tenseness in my shoulders.
- McKay walked slowly toward this screen, feeling a growing tenseness.
- She felt his probing gaze on her, felt the intenseness burning in those raven eyes.
