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tenuity

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[tuh-noo-i-tee, -nyoo-, te-] / təˈnu ɪ ti, -ˈnyu-, tɛ- /

noun

  1. the state of being tenuous.

  2. slenderness.

  3. thinness of consistency; rarefied condition.

Etymology

Origin of tenuity

1525–35; < Latin tenuitās thinness, equivalent to tenui ( s ) ( see tenuis) + -tās -ty 2

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She should have kept her nerves to herself, rasped, as they were to a treacherous tenuity.

From The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur by Sinclair, May

How can we imagine such powerful resilience combined with such extreme tenuity?

From Through Nature to God by Fiske, John

With this in his hand, the workman carefully traces the outlines of his drawing, which the tenuity of the saw-blade allows the tool to follow into every curve and angle.

From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by Arnoux, L.

Birch branches are to be preferred on account of their tenuity.

From Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines by Mathot, R. E.

In the Geological Museum are also specimens of Berlin and Ilsenburg manufacture; they serve to point the moral that ingenuity is not art, nor tenuity refinement.

From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various

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