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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There had been a week—a week of curious tensity.
From Literature
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
The loud demand of the tensity of his own body was a voice that drowned out hers.
From Literature
The muscles were strained to their utmost tensity.
From Project Gutenberg
Her face had not regained its color, but the haunted look was gone from her eyes, the tensity from about her lips.
From Project Gutenberg
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