Word Meaning

Meaning of 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.
- Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.
- Poverty; indigence.
- Refinement; delicacy.