English to English noun
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relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | | Example: the tenuity of a hair the thinness of a rope
source: wordnet30
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a rarified quality | | Example: the tenuity of the upper atmosphere
source: wordnet30
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the quality of lacking intensity or substance | | Example: a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
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