Tenuity

Definition:

  • (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.
  • (n.) Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.
  • (n.) Poverty; indigence.
  • (n.) Refinement; delicacy.

Compare tenuity with other words:

tensity vs. tenuity

paucity vs. tenuity