tenseness
English
noun
Definitions
- The characteristic of being tense.
- (phonetics) A particular vowel or consonant quality that is phonemically contrastive in many languages, including English.
Etymology
Suffix from English tense.
Origin
English
tense
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- hypertense English
- overtense English
- tensal English
- tense English
- tense vowel English
- tenseless English
- tensely English
- tensen English
- tensible English
- tensification English
- untense English
- tens Old French