Dictionary Entry
tenuity
tenuity is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.
- 3noun
Poverty; indigence.
- 4noun
Refinement; delicacy.
- 5noun
the quality of lacking intensity or substance- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"
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- 6noun
a rarified quality
"the tenuity of the upper atmosphere"
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- 7noun
relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width
"the tenuity of a hair"
"the thinness of a rope"
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