straining vs tenseness

straining

noun
  • filtering, the process of passing something through a strainer. 

  • The act by which one strains. (muscles, etc) 

tenseness

noun
  • A particular vowel or consonant quality that is phonemically contrastive in many languages, including English. 

  • The characteristic of being tense. 

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