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Webster 1828 Edition

Tenseness

TENSENESS

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Noun.
tens'ness. The state of being tense or stretched to stiffness; stiffness; opposed to laxness; as the tenseness of a string or fiber; tenseness of the skin.

Definition 2024

tenseness

tenseness

English

Noun

tenseness ‎(plural tensenesses)

  1. The characteristic of being tense.
  2. (phonetics) A particular vowel or consonant quality that is phonemically contrastive in many languages, including English.

Translations

Etymology

tense +‎ -ness

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