tension

/ˈtɛnʃən/

意味: 緊張、張力

例文: The tension in the air was clear.
　　  空気の緊張がはっきり感じられた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: high tension(高い緊張), muscle tension(筋肉の緊張), tension headache(緊張性頭痛)

定義: 緊張や不安の状態を指します。人や状況がストレスを感じているときに使われます。また、物理的には物が引っ張られている状態を指すこともあります。

tensionは約60,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
Noun: the physical condition of being stretched or strained
Noun: a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature)
Noun: (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body
Noun: feelings of hostility that are not manifest
Noun: the action of stretching something tight

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The tension in the room was almost unbearable.(部屋の中の緊張感はほとんど耐えられなかった。)
She felt tension before the big exam.(彼女は大きな試験の前に緊張を感じた。)
Tension between the two countries increased rapidly.(両国間の緊張が急速に高まった。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension
Noun: stress is a vasoconstrictor
Noun: it places great tension on the leg muscles
Noun: he could feel the tenseness of her body
Noun: there is a tension created between narrative time and movie time
Noun: there is a tension between these approaches to understanding history
Noun: the direction of maximum tension moves asymptotically toward the direction of the shear
Noun: he could sense her latent hostility to him
Noun: the diplomats’ first concern was to reduce international tensions
Noun: tension holds the belt in the pulleys

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): latent hostility, stress, tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): balance, condition, hostility, strain, stress, stretching

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): absolution, anchorage, astigmatism, atmosphere, atonicity, automation, breaking point, brutalization, celibacy, circumstance, climate, cold war, comfort, condemnation, curvature, danger, decline, deification, despair, difficulty, discomfort, dishabille, disorderliness, diversification, diversity, dominance, dryness, economic condition, electrolyte balance, emptiness, encapsulation, ennoblement, environmental condition, exoneration, extension, eye condition, facilitation, financial condition, frizz, fruition, fullness, guilt, hairlessness, health, homelessness, hopefulness, hospitalization, hyalinization, identification, immunity, impaction, impropriety, improvement, impurity, iniquity, innocence, ionization, irradiation, lactosuria, latent hostility, laxness, leakiness, light, lubrication, malady, mechanization, mode, motivation, mummification, mutism, nakedness, need, niche, nitrogen balance, noise conditions, nomination, normality, orderliness, participation, physical condition, place, polarization, prepossession, preservation, prognathism, protuberance, psychological state, purity, regularization, reinstatement, repair, rustication, rustiness, safety, sanitary condition, saturation, scandalization, serration, silence, situation, ski conditions, soundness, standardization, stigmatism, submission, subservience, susceptibility, suspicion, tension, tilth, unsoundness, unsusceptibility, urbanization, vacuolization, virginity, war, way, wetness

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): breaking point, tonicity, yips

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: stress, taut, tense, tensional

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: science

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: emotional

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): ion

Exam Level

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits

Movies(映画): The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anger