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Tensity

Tensity \Ten"si*ty\, n. The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.

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tensity

n. The quality of being tense (literally or figuratively); tension.

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tensity

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.