Harmony and Tension

Harmony

Harmony noun - A balanced, pleasing, or suitable arrangement of parts.
Usage example: her face had an angelic harmony that fascinated the leading painters of her day

Tension is an antonym for harmony.

Tension

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

Harmony is an antonym for tension.

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

How words are described

pure pure harmony pure tension
deep deep harmony deep tension
social social harmony social tension
internal internal harmony internal tension
Other adjectives: general, mutual, further, maximum, rising, international, racial, ethnic, marital.

Both words in one sentence

  • She’s also clever enough to quickly prevent the main cast from acquiring the elements of harmony, thus increasing the tension through denying them most of the resources they previously counted on.
  • Disney / Zootopia False Utopia: While Zootopia does try to to be place where mammals can live in harmony and anyone can be anything, there is still predator vs prey tension and species stereotyping present in that society.
  • This coupled with Rainbow's bruised ego over everypony apparently treating her as a foal, her It's All My Fault syndrome after Dinky's kidnapping, and the tension between the rest of the group due to Cabin Fever, harmony is in increasingly short supply.
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