- (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.) Refinement; delicacy.
- (n.) Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.
- (n.) Poverty; indigence.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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