tenuity noun.
[tɪ'nju:ɪti] LME.[Latin tenuitas, from tenuis thin: see -ITY.]1. Thinness;
spec. (a) slenderness;
(b) the state of being dilute or rarefied.
LME.■ S. Johnson The quick transition from the thickness of the forepart, to the tenuitythe thin partbehind. ■ M. F. Maury Air may be expanded to an indefinite degree of tenuity. ■ H. James The tenuity of the thread by which his future hung.2. Meagreness; feebleness; poverty.
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