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
Marriage has its ups and downs, reports Knef, but love has an in tensity that mere friends are incapable of understanding.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have never seen such color and tensity in a crowd.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
There had been a week—a week of curious tensity.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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