tenuity
AmericanEtymology
Origin of tenuity
1525–35; < Latin tenuitās thinness, equivalent to tenui ( s ) ( see tenuis) + -tās -ty 2
Example Sentences
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That they should be completely transparent through such enormous dimensions shows their extreme tenuity.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
The golden panicles of the great Quake-grass, so curiously compacted and hanging in stalks of so hair-like a tenuity as to nod and tremble with the slightest motion, how beautiful are these!
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
Histologically, the perisarc or test in the Graptoloidea appears to be composed of three layers, a middle layer of variable structure, and an overlying and an underlying layer of remarkable tenuity.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
It is whether the nucleus of a comet is an opaque solid body, a cluster of such bodies, or a mass of particles of extreme tenuity.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
She had never created for herself an ideal whose tenuity would one day envelop a human being.
From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie
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