Category:Tenuity

Te*nu"i*ty, n. Etym: [l. tenuitas, from tenuis thin: cf. F. ténuité. See tenuous.]

1. 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.

2. Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the Air; the tenuity of the blood. Bacon.

3. Poverty; indigence. [obs.] Eikon basilike.

4. Refinement; delicacy.