Tenuity

[te'nju:iti]

Definition

(n.) The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.

(n.) Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.

(n.) Poverty; indigence.

(n.) Refinement; delicacy.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Thinness, fineness, slenderness. exility.[2]. Rarity, rareness, subtility, etherealness.

Edited by Edward

Definition

n. thinness: smallness of diameter: slenderness: rarity.—v.t. Ten′ūate to make tenuous.—adj. Tenūiros′tral slender-billed as a bird of the Tenūiros′tres a large division of passerine birds including humming-birds nuthatches &c.—adj. Ten′ūous thin slender.

Editor: Ricky