Definitions for tenuity
təˈnu ɪ ti, -ˈnyu-, tɛ-tenu·ity

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. thinness, tenuity, slendernessnoun

   relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width

   "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope"

2. rarity, tenuity, low densitynoun

   a rarified quality

   "the tenuity of the upper atmosphere"

3. feebleness, tenuitynoun

   the quality of lacking intensity or substance

   "a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tenuitynoun

   Thinness, slenderness.

2. tenuitynoun

   Meagreness, paucity.

3. Etymology: From Latin tenuitas.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tenuitynoun

   Thinness; exility; smallness; minuteness; not grossness.

   Etymology: tenuité, French; tenuitas, from tenuis, Lat.

   Firs and pines mount of themselves in height without side boughs; partly heat, and partly tenuity of juice, sending the sap upwards. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist. №. 533.

   The tenuity and contempt of clergymen will soon let them see what a poor carcass they are, when parted from the influence of that supremacy. Charles I .

   Consider the divers figurings of the brain; the strings or filaments thereof; their difference in tenuity, or aptness for motion. Joseph Glanvill, Sceps.

   Aliment circulating through an animal body, is reduced to an almost imperceptible tenuity, before it can serve animal purposes. Arbuthnot.

   At the height of four thousand miles the æther is of that wonderful tenuity, that if a small sphere of common air, of an inch diameter, should be expanded to the thinness of that æther, it would more than take up the orb of Saturn, which is many million times bigger than the earth. Richard Bentley.

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1. tenuity

   Tenuity refers to the state or quality of being thin, slender, or fine, either physically or metaphorically. It can also describe something that is lacking in density, strength or substance.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tenuitynoun

   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. Tenuitynoun

   rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood

3. Tenuitynoun

   poverty; indigence

4. Tenuitynoun

   refinement; delicacy

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tenuity

   te-nū′i-ti, n. thinness: smallness of diameter: slenderness: rarity.—v.t. Ten′ūate, to make tenuous.—adj. Tenūiros′tral, slender-billed, as a bird of the Tenūiros′tres, a large division of passerine birds including humming-birds, nuthatches, &c.—adj. Ten′ūous, thin, slender. [L. tenuitas—tenuis, thin, slender; cf. tendĕre, to stretch.]

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1. • Dimension
   • Weakness

How to pronounce tenuity?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tenuity in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tenuity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=tenuity
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tenuity
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=tenuity
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tenuity
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=tenuity