tenseness

English

Etymology

From tense +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

tenseness (countable and uncountable, 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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