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tenuity

[ tuh-noo-i-tee, -nyoo-, te- ]

/ təˈnu ɪ ti, -ˈnyu-, tɛ- /

SEE SYNONYMS FOR tenuity

noun

the state of being tenuous.

thinness of consistency; rarefied condition.

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Origin of tenuity

1525–35; <Latin tenuitās thinness, equivalent to tenui(s) (see tenuis) + -tās-ty²

Words nearby tenuity

tent stitch, tent trailer, ten-twenty, tenty, tenuis, tenuity, tenuous, tenure, tenured, tenure-track, tenuto

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Example sentences from the Web for tenuity

The tenuity of the atmosphere on Mars has another consequence.
Are the Planets Inhabited?|E. Walter Maunder
He disliked the squalor of the political game and the glibness of tongue and tenuity of thought of the mere politician.
War Letters of a Public-School Boy|Paul Jones.
That tenuity in the comet which had previously inspired us with hope, was now the source of the bitterness of despair.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.|Various
By this contrivance the roving is drawn out into a thread of the desired degree of tenuity and hardness.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2|Various

The first thing that arrests our attention in these creatures is the extreme delicacy and tenuity of their substance.
Chambers' Edinburgh Journal|Various

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