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tautness
[tawt] 
| Main Entry: |
firmness
[furm]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | immovability |
| Synonyms: | durability, solidity, soundness, stability, steadiness, strength, substantiality, tautness, tension, tightness |
| Antonyms: | infirmity, instability, movability |
| Main Entry: | stress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical or mental pressure |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, alarm, albatross, anxiety, apprehensiveness, burden, clutch, crunch, disquiet, disquietude, distention, draw, dread, expectancy, extension, fear, fearfulness, ferment, flutter, force, hardship, hassle, heat, impatience, intensity, misgiving, mistrust, nervous tension, nervousness, oppression, overextension, passion, protraction, pull, restlessness, spring, strain, stretch, tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity, tightness, traction, trauma, trepidation, trial, urgency, worry |
| Antonyms: | indifference, relaxation |
| Main Entry: | tension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tightness |
| Synonyms: | astriction, balance, constriction, force, pressure, rigidity, stiffness, strain, straining, stress, stretching, tautness, tenseness, tensity |
| Antonyms: | limpness, looseness, relaxation, slack |
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