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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to tension:   (266 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:
antagonism, balance, condition, enmity, hostility, mental strain, nervous strain, status, strain, stress

Synonyms:
latent hostility, stress, tautness, tenseness, tensity

Also try:
— Adjectives for tension: high, nervous, low, interfacial, emotional, arterial, muscular, constant, international, sexual, racial, more...

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