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Tenseness vs Tenseless - What's the difference?

tenseness | tenseless |

As a noun tenseness

is the characteristic of being tense.

As an adjective tenseless is

lacking grammatical tense.

tenseness

English

Noun

(wikipedia tenseness) (es)
  • The characteristic of being tense.
  • (phonetics) A particular vowel or consonant quality that is phonemically contrastive in many languages, including English.

    • tenseless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Lacking grammatical tense
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    • , passage=Those who endorse the A-theory of time, for example, often attempt to show that tense is ineliminable, i. e. , it is impossible to adequately paraphrase tensed sentences into tenseless ones. }}