tenuity

Meanings

Plural: tenuities

Noun

• relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width
  • "the tenuity of a hair"
• a rarified quality
  • "the tenuity of the upper atmosphere"
• the quality of lacking intensity or substance; - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • "a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"
• Thinness, slenderness.
• Meagreness, paucity.

Synonyms

feebleness, low density, rarity, slenderness, thinness

Antonyms

thickness

Related Words

attenuate, extenuate, tenuous