tensity
Example Sentences
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That same week, Fitzgerald wrote his editor, Maxwell Perkins, that “Ernest came like a whirlwind. … I felt he was in a state of nervous tensity, that there was something almost religious about it.”
From Los Angeles Times
The muscles were strained to their utmost tensity.
From Project Gutenberg
Her face had not regained its color, but the haunted look was gone from her eyes, the tensity from about her lips.
From Project Gutenberg
No one, but Omniscience, can possibly know what degree of tensity our nature is capable of; nor precisely what degree is compatible with life, or with the most perfect health.
From Project Gutenberg
He had already known how to hate, but now he knew how to hate with a greater tensity.
From Project Gutenberg
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