tensity
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tensity
From the Medieval Latin word tēnsitās, dating back to 1650–60. See tense 1, -ity
Example Sentences
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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.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2017
She rises to the play's tensity with the real genius of a tragedienne and she sinks into its swamps of woe with equal effectiveness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shakespeare's language remains undisturbed in this version, but Papp's imaginative scissoring and repasting has sculptured a Hamlet of crystalline tensity.
From Time Magazine Archive
What makes the realist painting is not complete illusion, but intensity; and there is no in tensity without rules, limits and artifice.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hysterical tensity of his nerves urged him to speak, to free himself.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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