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Tenuity

noun
1.
Relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width.  Synonyms: slenderness, thinness.  "The thinness of a rope"
2.
A rarified quality.  Synonyms: low density, rarity.
3.
The quality of lacking intensity or substance.  Synonym: feebleness.






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"Tenuity" Quotes from Famous Books



... really fine limbs, without spoiling or distorting them. I expect your directions, ere I proceed to dwindle and fall away with despair; which at present I don't think advisable; because, if she should recant, she may then hate me perhaps in the other extreme for my tenuity. I am (with impatience) "Your most ...
— The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 • George A. Aitken

... "is much to be desired; but I am afraid, that no man will be able to breathe in these regions of speculation and tranquillity. I have been told, that respiration is difficult upon lofty mountains, yet, from these precipices, though so high as to produce great tenuity of air, it is very easy to fall; therefore, I suspect, that from any height, where life can be supported, there may be danger ...
— Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 - The Works Of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., In Nine Volumes • Samuel Johnson

... monk had had his day as well as his way. The so-called Gothic architecture had expressed its uttermost of aspiration and tenuity; and painting had fulfilled its utmost accommodation to the ever more slender wall-spaces and forms which this architecture necessitated. And once again, in the fifteenth century, the time was ripe for a new transition. Art was now to reveal the ...
— Holbein • Beatrice Fortescue

... where they represent cavities originally produced by the disengagement of vapour in the molten mass, and since filled, wholly or partially, by siliceous matter deposited in regular layers upon the walls. Such agates, when cut transversely, exhibit a succession of parallel lines, often of extreme tenuity, giving a banded appearance to the section, whence such stones are known as banded agate, riband agate and striped agate. Certain agates also occur, to a limited extent, in veins, of which a notable example ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia



Words linked to "Tenuity" :   feebleness, denseness, dimension, weakness, thickness, density, tenuous



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