Words and phrases that have a meaning related to tension: (260 results)
Often used in the same context:
friction, animosity, antagonism, discord, anxiety, tense, acrimony, uneasiness, unease, nervousness, strife, angst, rancor, hostility, disharmony, mistrust, rift, instability, dissension, confusion, disquiet, resentment, awkwardness, consternation, enmity, distrust, suspense, discomfort, excitement, pressure, rivalry, restiveness, intrigue, frostiness, disunity, stress, quarrels, uncertainty, insecurity, frustration, anxiousness, conflict, confrontation, unrest, dissonance, bitterness, polarization, estrangement, jitters, ambiguity, unpleasantness, bedevilment, discontentment, feud, restlessness, anguish, anger, schism, irritation, unhappiness, bedlam, rumpus, ruckus, pandemonium, touchiness, controversy, bickering, tempers, wariness, apprehension, unsettlement, bonhomie, frisson, disagreement, chaos, ambivalence, contentiousness, spats, turmoil, brinkmanship, clashes, disaffection, unsettledness, furor, discomfiture, closeness, ructions, bloodshed, misgiving, misunderstandings, embitterment, nerves, jealousy, tetchiness, commotion, paranoia, aggravation, panic, jubilation, jitteriness, exasperation, dichotomy, tensions, strain, fluidity, openness, unbalance, disequilibrium, cohesiveness, elevation, inequality, energy, impetus, irritability, stamina, biaxial, compression, uniaxial, excessive, fracture, hydrostatic, load, antidromic, burst, circumferential, gravity, leakage, lessened, multiaxial, muscle, optokinetic, phasic, triaxial
More specific:
breaking point, tone, tonicity, tonus
Appears in the definition of:
., abreact, amyotonia, anaerobic exercise, antianxiety agent, antianxiety drug, anxiety reaction, anxiolytic, anxiolytic drug, arab-israeli war, aroused, ataractic, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, ativan, atonia, atonicity, atony, block, bodybuilding, breaking point, capillarity, capillary action, charge, choke, choker, consequent, crack, cruelness, cruelty, divide, drawn, equanil, gad, generalized anxiety disorder, grid, harshness, heighten, high-tension, hypertonic, hypotonic, interfacial surface tension, interfacial tension, isometric, isotonic, isotonic exercise, kettle, kettledrum, loose, loosen, lorazepam, mental block, meprin, meprobamate, miltown, minor tranquilizer, minor tranquilliser, minor tranquillizer, mobbish, musclebuilding, muscle building, nerves, power grid, power pylon, power system, pylon, relax, relaxant, remit, sequent, setscrew, six-day war, six day war, slack, slacken, snap, spark, spring balance, spring scale, strain, stress, stretch mark, surcharge, surface-active, surface-active agent, surfactant, taut, tense, tensile, tensiometer, tensional, tensionless, tension headache, timpani, tone, tonicity, tonometer, tonus, tranquilizer, tranquilliser, tranquillizer, tympani, tympanum, unbend, unbrace, unflurried, unflustered, unperturbed, unruffled, wetter, wetting agent, work, wound up, yips
More general:
balance, condition, mental strain, nervous strain, status
Synonyms:
Also try:latent hostility, tautness, tenseness, tensity
— Adjectives for tension: high, nervous, low, interfacial, emotional, arterial, muscular, constant, international, sexual, racial, more...
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