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Tenseness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The characteristic of being tense. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense wordnet
  3. 3
    A particular vowel or consonant quality that is phonemically contrastive in many languages, including English. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the physical condition of being stretched or strained wordnet

Etymology

From tense + -ness.

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