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Tension   /tˈɛnʃən/   Listen
Tension

noun
1.
(psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense.  Synonyms: stress, tenseness.  "Stress is a vasoconstrictor"
2.
The physical condition of being stretched or strained.  Synonyms: tautness, tenseness, tensity.  "He could feel the tenseness of her body"
3.
A balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature).  "There is a tension between these approaches to understanding history"
4.
(physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body.
5.
Feelings of hostility that are not manifest.  Synonym: latent hostility.  "The diplomats' first concern was to reduce international tensions"
6.
The action of stretching something tight.



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"Tension" Quotes from Famous Books



... every one seized his rifle and before you could count ten the whole line across the Peninsula had followed suit. This was only "wind up" and it died away very shortly afterwards, but it showed that all troops were at extreme tension. ...
— The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 • F.L. Morrison
... little society as Peking, all walled in together within the narrow inclosure of the legation quarter,—walled in literally, also, in the fullest sense, with soldiers from the guards of the various legations patrolling the walls and mounting guard day and night,—such a situation results in great tension and embarrassment all round. There was not one word of war talk during the dinner; it was tacitly ...
— Peking Dust • Ellen N. La Motte
... her glance challenged his, coldly, proudly, and then her features softened. The indolent look crept into her eyes once more; the tension of her lips relaxed. ...
— Under the Rose • Frederic Stewart Isham
... Will Marion! ahoy!" shouted Josh, who was kneeling down at the edge of the shaft, his face drawn with horror and strangely mottled, as he stared down into the pit. For, without warning, Will had freed himself from the rope, the tension upon which was gone; and as Josh drew a few feet up, and let the line run down again, his eyes seemed starting from his head, and he listened for the awful splash he ...
— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn
... and temper, at first moved the King to laughter, they soon exasperated him past laughing. Once he clapped his hand to his sword-hilt and declared that he would sooner have recourse to that than grant a dissolution. The tension of public feeling can best be estimated when a constitutional sovereign on the one side could dare to make such a remark; when a representative of the people like Colonel Barre on the other side could dare in the House of {134} Commons to say that disregard of public petitions might ...
— A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4) • Justin McCarthy and Justin Huntly McCarthy


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