| tenuity | 1. 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. 2. Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood. 3. Poverty; indigence. 4. Refinement; delicacy. Origin: L. Tenuitas, from tenuis thin: cf. F. Tenuite. See Tenuous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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