Crossword clues for tenuity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tenuity \Te*nu"i*ty\, n. [L. tenuitas, from tenuis thin: cf. F. t['e]nuit['e]. See Tenuous.]
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.
Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.
--Bacon.Poverty; indigence. [Obs.]
--Eikon Basilike.Refinement; delicacy.
Wiktionary
n. 1 thinness, slenderness. 2 meagreness, paucity.
WordNet
n. 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]
the quality of lacking intensity or substance; "a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: feebleness]
a rarified quality; "the tenuity of the upper atmosphere" [syn: rarity, low density]
Usage examples of "tenuity".
In spite of the tenuity of my purse I felt obliged to give my friends this mark of my gratitude for the kindness they had lavished on me.
What dreadful work Spelling made among those slight reputations, floating in swollen tenuity on the surface of the stream, and mirroring each other in reciprocal reflections!
Even the power hum had fallen to an inaudible level, and the Rorsch generator, working in such tenuity, had long since ceased to voice its characteristic harmonics.
Otherwise we are likely to feel chilly: we grow too fine where tenuity of stature is necessarily buffetted by gales, namely, in our self-esteem.
Owing to the extreme tenuity of these radicles, it was very difficult to attach the square to the actual apex.
She still retained a certain tenuity and fragility of aspect, a lightness of tread, a softness of voice, a faintness of colouring, which suggested an intimate acquaintance with suffering.
From this a passage runs to the Representative Chamber, passing between those tell-tale windows, which, looking to the right and left, proclaim the tenuity of the building.
In weight, size, and number of its constituents this exterior armour is altogether disproportionate to the extreme tenuity of its foundation.
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.
In spite of the tenuity of my purse I felt obliged to give my friends this mark of my gratitude for the kindness they had lavished on me.
Benvolio had high colloquies with the Professor, who was a devout Neo-Platonist, and whose venerable wit had spun to subtler tenuity the ethereal speculations of the Alexandrian school.