Clashing and Tension

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Clashing adjective - Not being in agreement or harmony.

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Tension and clashing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tension" instead a noun "Clashing".

Nearby Words: clash, clashed

Tension noun - The burden on one's emotional or mental well-being created by demands on one's time.

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Clashing and tension are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Clashing" instead a noun "Tension".

Nearby Words: tense, tensing, tensed, tenseness, tensely

Snow X Lightning usually interprets their clashing personalities and Lightning's initial hostility as Belligerent Sexual Tension and takes it from there.

Source: Launcher Of A Thousand Ships / Video Games
Belligerent Sexual Tension: From the very first time they meet, they're clashing...and coming this close to throwing themselves at each other.

Source: Literature / Leiningen Versus the Ants
The former two series have romantic tension since they start out married, and the last has them begin in a master/more-powerful-servant relationship, making a recurring plot one or both spouses/interests getting doubts or clashing, only to reconcile and learn An Aesop.

Source: Nobody Thinks It Will Work

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