tenseness

Other forms of tenseness

plural

tensenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tenseness

What does tenseness mean?

tenseness means "the physical condition of being stretched or strained". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tenseness?

tenseness has 3 syllables: ten-se-ness. The stress falls on "ten".

What is another word for tenseness?

Close synonyms include tension, tensity, tautness, tension, stress. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tenseness a common word?

tenseness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.