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Tenuity

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.

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Density 76% connected

The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity.

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Dimension 76% connected

Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural, measure in leng…

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Weakness 76% connected

The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness.

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Threadiness 76% connected

Quality of being thready.

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Rare 74% connected

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Rare 74% connected

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Tenuous 74% connected

Thin; slender; small; minute.

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Tenuous 74% connected

Thin; slender; small; minute.

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Feebleness 92% connected

The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.

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Rarity 92% connected

The quality or state of being rare; rareness; thinness; as, the rarity (contrasted with the density) of gases.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Thinness 92% connected

The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).

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Demography noun · 78% connection

the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations

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Human ecology noun · 78% connection

the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations

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Ageing noun · 78% connection

the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age

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Aging noun · 78% connection

the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age

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Birth noun · 78% connection

the time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a…

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Census noun · 78% connection

a periodic count of the population

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Death noun · 78% connection

the act of killing; "he had two deaths on his conscience"

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the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year

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the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year

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Denseness noun · 78% connection

the amount per unit size

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the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year

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Fertility noun · 78% connection

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

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Migration noun · 78% connection

a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)

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Mortality noun · 78% connection

the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year

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Mortality rate noun · 78% connection

the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year

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Nose count noun · 78% connection

a periodic count of the population

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Nosecount noun · 78% connection

a periodic count of the population

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Accumbent adjective · 78% connection

Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf.

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Albino noun · 78% connection

A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, a…

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Blade noun · 78% connection

especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole

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Broad superl. · 78% connection

Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.

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Broaden verb · 78% connection

To make broad or broader; to render more broad or comprehensive.

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Ethereal adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, though…

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Exiguity noun · 78% connection

Scantiness; smallness; thinness.

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Exility adjective · 78% connection

Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness.

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Fetlock noun · 78% connection

The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals.…

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Frizette noun · 78% connection

A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.

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Gaseous adjective · 78% connection

Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous.

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Geminate noun · 78% connection

a doubled or long consonant; "the ‘n’ in ‘thinness’ is a geminate"

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Glass-crab noun · 78% connection

The larval state (Phyllosoma) of the genus Palinurus and allied genera. It is remarkable for its strange outlines, thinness, and trans…

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Gordius noun · 78% connection

A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in…

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Gracility noun · 78% connection

State of being gracilent; slenderness.

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Hairy adjective · 78% connection

Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute.

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Lock noun · 78% connection

A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

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Long adjective · 78% connection

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as…

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