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  2  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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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