Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tenuity"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tenuity \Te*nu"i*ty\, n. [L. tenuitas, from tenuis thin: cf. F.
t['e]nuit['e]. See {Tenuous}.]
1. 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.
2. Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity
of the air; the tenuity of the blood. --Bacon.
3. Poverty; indigence. [Obs.] --Eikon Basilike.
4. Refinement; delicacy.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tenuity
n 1: relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to
its length or width: "the tenuity of a hair"; "the
thinness of a rope" [syn: {thinness}, {slenderness}]
[ant: {thickness}]
2: the quality of lacking intensity or substance; "a shrill yet
sweet tenuity of voice"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: {feebleness}]
3: a rarified quality: "the tenuity of the upper atmosphere"
[syn: {rarity}, {low density}]
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