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tenuity

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te·nu·i·ty  (t-n-t, -ny-)
n.
The quality or condition of being tenuous; lack of thickness, density, or substance.

[Middle English tenuite, from Old French, from Latin tenuits, thinness, from tenuis, thin; see tenuous.]
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Noun1.tenuity - relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope"
dimension - the magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height)
2.tenuity - a rarified quality; "the tenuity of the upper atmosphere"
density, denseness - the amount per unit size
3.tenuity - the quality of lacking intensity or substance; "a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
weakness - the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain; "his weakness increased as he became older"; "the weakness of the span was overlooked until it collapsed"
Translations
tenuity [teˈnjʊɪtɪ] Ntenuidad f


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Fouquet had gone to bed, like a man who clings to life, and wishes to economize, as much as possible, that slender tissue of existence, of which the shocks and frictions of this world so quickly wear out the tenuity.
Presently the sudden transition from daylight to darkness which, owing to the tenuity of the air upon Barsoom, occurs almost without the warning twilight of Earth, would occur.
But its efforts, it must be acknowledged, served an excellent purpose; for, with each successive whiff, the figure lost more and more of its dizzy and perplexing tenuity and seemed to take denser substance.
 
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