tenuity
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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 May Sinclair
This tenuity is shown by the fact that stars were seen through the tail “as if the tail did not exist.”
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
If this be so, the action of the Himalayas must be counteracted by subterranean tenuity.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
An example of different degrees of purity will be found in washes of water-colours of different tenuity.
From Colour Measurement and Mixture by W. de W. Abney
To speak philosophically, there is continuity and correspondence; but spirit and matter are not degrees of the same substance, differing only in tenuity, as is commonly supposed.
From In Both Worlds by William Henry Holcombe
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