stress vs tenseness
tenseness vs stressstress and tenseness both are nouns.
stress is a verb but tenseness is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stress | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| tenseness | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
stress and tenseness
are synonyms defined as:
- stress and tenseness: (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
Other synonyms of stress include
tension.
| stress (noun) | tenseness (noun) |
|---|---|
| the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | the physical condition of being stretched or strained |
| (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body | (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense |
| (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | |
| difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension | |
| special emphasis attached to something |
| stress (verb) | tenseness (verb) |
|---|---|
| to suffer from stress | |
| to stress, single out as important | |
| put stress on; utter with an accent | |
| test the limits of |
Words related to "stress"
- accent
- accentuate
- accentuation
- afflict
- articulate
- background
- bear down
- breaking point
- bring out
- difficultness
- difficulty
- downplay
- drive home
- emphasis
- emphasise
- emphasize
- enounce
- enunciate
- evince
- express
- focus
- force
- get
- have
- inflection
- mechanical stress
- mental strain
- natural philosophy
- nervous strain
- physics
- pitch accent
- play down
- point up
- press home
- pronounce
- prosody
- psychological science
- psychology
- punctuate
- rack
- ram home
- re-emphasise
- re-emphasize
- say
- sentence stress
- set off
- show
- sound out
- strain
- stressor
- suffer
- sustain
- tenseness
- tension
- tonic accent
- topicalize
- try
- underline
- underscore
- word accent
- word stress
- yips
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