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Tense may refer to:

Linguistics

• Grammatical tense, a property of verbs indicating chronology
  • Tense–aspect–mood, a wider set of verb features (colloquially "tense")
• Tenseness, a constrained pronunciation, especially of vowels

Arts and media

• Tense (album), a 2014 album by TVXQ
• Tense (artwork), a 1990 art installation by Anya Gallaccio
• The Tense, a 2025 concert tour by Taeyeon

Other uses

• Tense, a state of muscle contraction
• Tense, a sequence of modifiers in tense logic

See also

• Tension (disambiguation)
• Tensed, Idaho, US
• All pages with titles containing tense
  • Tense Nervous Head (1993 EP) and Tense Moments (1994 mini-album) by Headswim
  • Tense Nervous Headache, 1988 album by Boy George
  • "Dating Tense!", a song on 2015 album Undertale Soundtrack by Toby Fox
  • E-Tense, a brand of DS Automobiles
  • Future tense (disambiguation)
  • In Tense, 2022 album by Harish Raghavan
  • "The Orchestra Is Feeling Tense", a song on 2024 album Black Friday by Tom Odell
  • Past Tense (disambiguation)
  • Perfect Tense (album), by Fallulah, 2016
  • Present Tense (disambiguation)
  • "Preset Tense", a song on 2017 album From Deewee by Soulwax
  • The Rupture Tense, 2022 poetry book by Jenny Xie
  • Quarter tense, an Irish Christian event
• Stiff voice, a method of pronunciation