Synonyms for "tenseness" (15 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (3)

electricityheatnervous tension

Strong matches (5)

pressurerenitencyrigidityrigorstiffness

Related words (7)

straintensiontightness

Noun(4 words)

stresstautnesstensiontensity

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

5 entries

conditionmental strainnervous strainstatusstrain

Synonyms

1 entries

tension

derived from

1 entries

tense

has context

1 entries

phonetics

related to

6 entries

consonantcontrastivephonemicallyqualitytensevowel

Translations

3 translations across 3 languages.

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French

1 entries

• tension noun (the characteristic of being tense)

German

1 entries

• Gespanntheit noun (the characteristic of being tense)

Irish

1 entries

• riteacht noun (the characteristic of being tense)

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