0 the quality of being worried or nervous:
There was an underlying tenseness in his manner.
1 a state in which the muscles in your body or in a part of your body are stretched tight and stiff:
2 the quality of being made with more force than other speech sounds:
A tenseness gripped Lisbon as people waited to see what would happen.
He feels tenseness and may think that it is difficult to cure this so-called 'simple' problem.
There was a fair degree joking in order to take the tenseness out of the situation.
He could feel the tenseness of her fingers, as if she was clutching at crystal straws.
She could tell from the tenseness in his body that there were moments when he had to fight his feelings.
Suddenly she released all the tenseness from her muscles and he relaxed his hold slightly.
