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Definitions: Tenseness |
TensenessNoun1. The physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the tenseness of her body". 2. A state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tenseness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references) |
Synonyms: TensenessSynonyms: stress (n), tautness (n), tension (n), tensity (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tenseness |
| English words defined with "tenseness": open ♦ tautness, tension, tensity. (references) |
| "Tenseness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tenseness" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tenseness | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tenseness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | توتر (in a stew, strain, stress, tauten, tautness, tense, tension, tensity, tighten), إنشداه (stupefaction, stupor, wonder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kireys (strain, stringency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tension (tensility, tension). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | straffheit (erectness, firmness, strictness, tautness, tightness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπερένταση (tension). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מתיחות (elasticity, strain, stress, stretch, tension, tightness), "ריכות (preparedness, suspense, tension, vigilance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | feszültség (potential difference, strain, stress, tension, tensity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 緊張の度 (degree of tenseness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | き"ちょうのど (degree of tenseness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | chionnid (austerity, compactness, stiffness, strain, tautness, tension). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ensenesstay напряженность (arduousness, constraint, intension, intensity, strenuousness, tension, tensions, tensity, tightness, uptightness). (various references) zategnutost (tension), napetost (hauteur, tension, tensity), krutost (rigidity, stickiness). (various references) tirantez (friction, strain, stringency, tension, tightness), tensión (concentration, E or emf, electromotive force, heat, intensity of stress, potential difference, pressure, strain, stress, suspense, tension, unit stress, voltage). (various references) gerginlik (distemper, escalation, frayed temper, jitters, strain, stress, stretch, tension, the jitters, tightness). (various references) tình trạng căng tính căng thẳng (tensity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tenseness": tensenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tenseness": intenseness. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tenseness": intensenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Tenseness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chineseness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-n-n-s-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: sennets. | |
-3 letters: nesses, sennet, senses, tenses. | |
-4 letters: esses, nenes, nests, sense, sente, teens, tense. | |
-5 letters: eses, nene, ness, nest, nets, seen, sees, sene, sent, sets, teen, tees, tens. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-n-n-s-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: neatnesses. | |
+2 letters: earnestness, ineptnesses, inertnesses, intenseness, notednesses, presentness, sternnesses, tensenesses. | |
+3 letters: entirenesses, finitenesses, gentlenesses, innatenesses, intentnesses, inventresses, minutenesses, nativenesses, ornatenesses, recentnesses, rottennesses, silentnesses, subsentences, tendernesses, tonelessness, trendinesses, wontednesses. | |
+4 letters: ancientnesses, animatenesses, betweennesses, currentnesses, earnestnesses, enchantresses, essentialness, eternalnesses, extensiveness, genteelnesses, inexactnesses, intensenesses, intensiveness, jointednesses, lengthinesses, neutralnesses, notablenesses, plenteousness, pointednesses, presentnesses, quintessences, resentfulness, ressentiments, sensitiveness, strangenesses, stuntednesses, teemingnesses, tenablenesses, tenuousnesses, tunablenesses, tunefulnesses, unquietnesses, unsettledness. | |
+5 letters: apparentnesses, centerednesses, concretenesses, contritenesses, definitenesses, dementednesses, eventfulnesses, exactingnesses, extendednesses, extraneousness, fleetingnesses, frequentnesses, inchoatenesses, indebtednesses, indirectnesses, indiscreetness, inexpertnesses, infinitenesses, intimatenesses, intrepidnesses, negativenesses, nonnecessities, pleasantnesses, pretensionless, punitivenesses, relentlessness, retiringnesses, sinisternesses, southernnesses, sterlingnesses, strandednesses, tangiblenesses, tonelessnesses, tremendousness, unchastenesses, unstablenesses, unsteadinesses, untimelinesses, unwontednesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6E 73 65 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . -. ... . -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e n s e n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006E 0073 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)547180857180718585 |
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