anxious vs tense

anxious

adj
  • Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying. 

  • Having a feeling of anxiety or disquietude; extremely concerned, especially about something that will happen in the future or that is unknown. 

  • Earnestly desirous. 

  • Nervous and worried. 

tense

adj
  • Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed. 

  • Pulled taut, without any slack. 

verb
  • To apply a tense to. 

  • To make tense. 

  • To become tense. 

noun
  • Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists. 

  • The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists. 

  • An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense. 

How often have the words anxious and tense occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )