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tensity

[ ten-si-tee ]

noun

  1. the state of being tense; tenseness.


tensity

/ ˈ³ÙÉ›²Ô²õɪ³Ùɪ /

noun

  1. a rare word for tension tension tension
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Origin of tensity1

From the Medieval Latin word ³Ùŧ²Ô²õ¾±³ÙÄå²õ, dating back to 1650–60. See tense 1, -ity
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There had been a week—a week of curious tensity.

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That same week, Fitzgerald wrote his editor, Maxwell Perkins, that “Ernest came like a whirlwind. … I felt he was in a state of nervous tensity, that there was something almost religious about it.â€

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Now that she was close to him the whiskey made him whirl faster and the tensity of his body mounted.

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The muscles were strained to their utmost tensity.

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Her face had not regained its color, but the haunted look was gone from her eyes, the tensity from about her lips.

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