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noun

Tenuity n.

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.

Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.

Poverty; indigence. (Obs.)

Refinement; delicacy.

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Etymology of 'Tenuity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tenuity" Quotes from Famous Books

... exists in the world. Water is not compressible or elastic; it may be solidified into ice or vaporised into steam: but the air is elastic and compressible. It may be condensed to any extent by pressure, or expanded to an infinite degree of tenuity by pressure being removed from it. It is not liable to undergo any changes in constitution beyond these, by any of the ordinary influences by which ...

— The Ocean and its Wonders • R.M. Ballantyne

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