tensity
41tense — 1. adj. & v. adj. 1 stretched tight, strained (tense cord; tense muscle; tense nerves; tense emotion). 2 causing tenseness (a tense moment). 3 Phonet. pronounced with the vocal muscles tense. v.tr. & intr. make or become tense. Phrases and idioms …
42tonus — noun the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli the doctor tested my tonicity • Syn: ↑tonicity, ↑tone • Ant: ↑atonicity (for: ↑tonicity) …
43attensity — aˈten(t)səd.ē, əˈ noun ( es) Etymology: attributive + tensity (as in protensity) : sensory clearness (as in differentiating between a sensation that is in the focus of attention and one that is not) …
44ten|si|ty — «TEHN suh tee», noun. tense quality or condition: »Figurative. It braced him into such a tensity of spirit (Thomas Carlyle) …
