Tense may refer to:
Biology
- Tense, a state of muscle contraction
Linguistics
- Grammatical tense, a property of verbs indicating chronology
- Tense–aspect–mood, a wider set of verb features (colloquially "tense")
- Tenseness, a constrained pronunciation, especially of vowels
Media
- Tense (album), a 2014 album by TVXQ
- Tense (artwork), a 1990 art installation by Anya Gallaccio