Definitions for tensities

tensities ten·si·ty

Spelling: [ten-si-tee]
IPA: /ˈtɛn sɪ ti/

Tensities is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in tensities (eeiinsstt).

Definitions for tensities

noun

  1. the state of being tense; tenseness.

Origin of tensities

From the Medieval Latin word tēnsitās, dating back to 1650-60. See tense1, -ity

Examples for tensities

Every nerve in his body seemed to be strung up to the ultimate pitch of tensity.

She was again silent, but the locked grip told him of her tensity.

Night after night, with a tensity born of her struggle with her grief, she talked about her children.

I could see the lounging crowds and recognize the tensity of conditions.

It was a sort of tensity that seemed to emanate from the general himself.

The rebound from the tensity of the strain was too great for him to bear.

In his mind she had been Sally, and in a moment of tensity he had let it shape on his lips.

There was the tensity of fierceness in the man's plea which appealed deeply to her sympathies.

It seemed incredible that the tensity of the silence should not snap.

For some unaccountable reason the tensity of her tone annoyed him.

Word Value for tensities
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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