tenseness

English

Etymology

tense +‎ -ness

Noun

tenseness (countable and uncountable, 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

the characteristic of being tense

• French: tension (fr)
• Irish: riteacht f