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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
- Relieved from the intenseness of her agony by this plan, and ever eager to pursue the first idea that arose, she flew to borrow from Mrs. Berlinton her post-chaise for the next morning, and to supplicate that Camilla
- Mentally dropping tenseness brings intenseness, not relaxation. The Genius of Flexibility
- Any one of those three colouring principles is capable of becoming black, without any alteration of its substance by absorbing the rays which are not analogous to it, when its intenseness exceeds the proportion of its own ray. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
- He had not, however, experienced the kind of emotions that were needed to properly convey the intenseness of the last of the loves.
- But what shall I say, when I find my frailty so much increased, that I cannot, with the same intenseness of devotion I used to be blest with, apply myself to the throne of Grace, nor, of consequence, find my invocations answered by that delight and inward satisfaction, with which I used when the present near prospect was more remote? Pamela
- McKay walked slowly toward this screen, feeling a growing tenseness.
- McKay walked slowly toward this screen, feeling a growing tenseness.
- This is to captivate the general publics intenseness of their own interests, and needless to say this world of ours is becoming more biblical every day,…. say like the times of Sodom & Gomorra. Redrup v. New York and the end of American censorship « Jahsonic
- CAROL KOLB, CNN HEAD WRITER: Just the intenseness that we bring to every single news story. CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2009
- There was an atmosphere of tenseness in the air.
