tenseness

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

tense +‎ -ness

Noun [edit]

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Wikipedia tenseness (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.

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