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Tenseness

Definitions: Tenseness

Tenseness

Noun

1. 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: Tenseness

Synonyms: stress (n), tautness (n), tension (n), tensity (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tenseness

English words defined with "tenseness": opentautness, tension, tensity. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Tenseness

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2471,196

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tenseness

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tenseness

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tenseness

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

   

Russian 

  

напряженность (arduousness, constraint, intension, intensity, strenuousness, tension, tensions, tensity, tightness, uptightness). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zategnutost (tension), napetost (hauteur, tension, tensity), krutost (rigidity, stickiness). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Turkish

  

gerginlik (distemper, escalation, frayed temper, jitters, strain, stress, stretch, tension, the jitters, tightness). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tình trạng căng tính căng thẳng (tensity). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Tenseness

Derivations

Words beginning with "tenseness": tensenesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "tenseness": intenseness. (additional references)

Words containing "tenseness": intensenesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Tenseness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chineseness. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Tenseness

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tenseness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 65 6E 73 65 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .    -.    ...    .    -.    .    ...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#110 &#115 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 006E 0073 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

547180857180718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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