English English Dictionary

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.