English Explanatory Dictionary

tenseness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

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Word forms

tenseness tensenesses

Etymology

From tense + -ness.

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