Tenuity

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Poverty; indigence.

II. Tenuity ·noun Refinement; delicacy.

III. Tenuity ·noun Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.

IV. Tenuity ·noun 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.