tenuity

[ tuh-noo-i-tee, -nyoo-, te- ]
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noun
  1. the state of being tenuous.

  1. thinness of consistency; rarefied condition.

Origin of tenuity

1
1525–35; <Latin tenuitās thinness, equivalent to tenui(s) (see tenuis) + -tās-ty2

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