1. Noun
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. Noun
Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.
3. Noun
Poverty; indigence.
4. Noun
Refinement; delicacy.
5. Noun
a rarified quality; "the tenuity of the upper atmosphere"
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