TENUITY
\tɛnjˈuːɪti], \tɛnjˈuːɪti], \t_ɛ_n_j_ˈuː_ɪ_t_i]\
Definitions of TENUITY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the quality of lacking intensity or substance; "a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope"
By Princeton University
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the quality of lacking intensity or substance; "a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.
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Poverty; indigence.
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Refinement; delicacy.
By Oddity Software
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Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.
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Poverty; indigence.
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Refinement; delicacy.
By Noah Webster.
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Thinness; as, the tenuity of a leaf; slenderness; as, the tenuity of a hair; rareness, as of the air; lack of substance, as of the blood.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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