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Stretching quality
Answer for the clue "Stretching quality ", 7 letters:
tensity
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Word definitions for tensity in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being tense (literally or figuratively); tension.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tensity \Ten"si*ty\, n. The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the tenseness of her body" [syn: tension , tenseness , tautness ]
Usage examples of tensity.
As she rocked to and fro she felt the tensity of woe in abandonment, the magnificence of wrath after deception, the languour of sorrow after defeat.
Can’t you feel the tensity of doom in the very air, aye, and see the stark print of fear on every mortal face?
He saw her eyes go blank and her face strain in lines of tensity, and a fine dew broke out on her forehead.
There were more grins, less tensity still, when Barclay and Van Wall finished their work.
As the man, making some remark to his young companion, glanced across the room, his gaze stopped on Poirot for a moment and just for that second there was a strange malevolence, an unnatural tensity in the glance.