“he could feel the tenseness of her body”
- Synonyms:
- tautness, tension, tensity
- Types:
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tone, tonicity, tonus
the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
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catatonia
extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia
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muscle tone, muscular tonus
normal tonicity of the muscles
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myotonia
abnormally long muscular contractions; slow relaxation of a muscle after a contraction
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hypertonia, hypertonicity, hypertonus
(of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic
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hypotonia, hypotonicity, hypotonus
(of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic
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condition, status
a state at a particular time