All tenseness synonyms

noun tenseness

• heebie-jeebies — a condition of extreme nervousness caused by fear, worry, strain, etc.; the jitters; the willies (usually preceded by the): Just thinking about ghosts gives me the heebie-jeebies.
• irritation — the act of irritating or the state of being irritated.
• fidget — to move about restlessly, nervously, or impatiently.
• wildness — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
• fidgets — Plural form of fidget.
• apprehensiveness — uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.
• willies — a male given name, form of William.
• intensity — the quality or condition of being intense.
• nerves — one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.
• hypersensitivity — excessively sensitive: to be hypersensitive to criticism.
• nerviness — The characteristic of being nervy.
• neurasthenia — Psychiatry. (not in technical use) nervous debility and exhaustion occurring in the absence of objective causes or lesions; nervous exhaustion.
• nervousness — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
• astriction — to bind fast; constrain.
• fretfulness — The quality of being fretful.
• weightiness — having considerable weight; heavy; ponderous: a weighty bundle.
• intenseness — The characteristic of being intense; intensity.
• excitability — (uncountable) The state of being excitable.
• jitters — jitters, nervousness; a feeling of fright or uneasiness (usually preceded by the): Every time I have to make a speech, I get the jitters.
• edginess — nervously irritable; impatient and anxious.
• jumps — Plural form of jump.