tensity

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin tensus ‘tense’ + -ity. Compare intensity.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tensity (usually uncountable, plural tensities)

  1. The quality of being tense (literally or figuratively); tension.
    • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 994:
      That broke the tensity of the children's interest, and they ran back into the house