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tenseness

tenseness noun: the characteristic of being tense.

Noun

tenseness (countable and uncountable, plural tensenesses)

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

tenseness meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

tenseness in Tamil

இறுக்கம், விறைப்புடைமை

tenseness in Malayalam

മുറുക്കം, വലിച്ചിൽ, സംഘർഷം

Forms of tenseness

pluraltensenesses

Origin of tenseness

From tense + -ness.

Questions about tenseness

What does tenseness mean?
Tenseness means the characteristic of being tense.
What is tenseness in Tamil?
Tenseness in Tamil is இறுக்கம், விறைப்புடைமை. See Tenseness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tenseness?
Tenseness is a noun.
What is the plural of tenseness?
The plural of tenseness is tensenesses.

Words near tenseness in the dictionary

  1. tenselessly
  2. tenselessness
  3. tensely
  4. tensen
  5. tensened
  6. tenseness
  7. tensenesses
  8. tensening
  9. tensens
  10. tenser
  11. tenses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tenseness (page history and authors); tenseness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tenseness (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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