tenuity
tenuity is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood. Bacon.
- 2.Poverty; indigence. [Obs.] Eikon Basilike.
- 3.Refinement; delicacy.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absence
- anatomy
- and
- angustation
- bone
- breadth
- cavernous
- closeness
- coarctation
- compressibility
- compressible
- constriction
- contraction
- deposition
- diffusion
- dilatation
- dilate
- emaciation
- ether
- evaporation
- exiguity
- exility
- expand
- expansion
- filament
- fine
- flimsy
- gas
- ghat
- ghaut
- hollow
- hourglass
- inflation
- isthmus
- lantern
- light
- line
- little
- macilency
- marcor
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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