Definitions for tensity

tensity ten·si·ty

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

Tensity is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in tensity (einstty).

Definitions for tensity

noun

  1. the state of being tense; tenseness.

Origin of tensity

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

Examples for tensity

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for tensity
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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