Mood vs. Tense — What's the Difference?

A particular state of mind or emotion

Tightly stretched; taut.

A pervading impression of an observer

In a state of nervous tension or mental strain

An instance or spell of sulking or angry behavior

Causing or characterized by nervous tension or mental strain

Inclination; disposition

(Linguistics) Enunciated with taut muscles, as the sound (ē) in keen.

A property of verbs in which the speaker's attitude toward the factuality or likelihood of the action or condition expressed.

To make or become tense.

A category or set of verb forms or inflections used to indicate such an attitude. In English, the indicative mood is used to make factual statements, the subjunctive mood to indicate doubt or unlikelihood, and the imperative mood to express a command.

A property of verbs in which the time of the action or state, as well as its continuance or completion, is indicated or expressed.

(Logic) The arrangement of statement types in a syllogism.

A category or set of verb forms that indicate or express the time, such as past, present, or future, of the action or state.

A mental or emotional state, composure.

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

Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).

An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.

A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.

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

A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.

To apply a tense to.

A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.

(transitive) To make tense.

(slang) A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.

(intransitive) To become tense.

(grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.

(slang) Used to express that the speaker finds something very relatable.

Pulled taut, without any slack.

Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).

One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.

Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, conditional, hypothetical, obligatory, imperitive, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the imperitive mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.

Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.

Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.

A grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time

A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;

Stretch or force to the limit;

The prevailing psychological state;

Increase the tension on;

Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

Become tense or tenser;

Make tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;

In or of a state of physical or nervous tension

Pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')

Taut or rigid; stretched tight;