Te-nū'i-ty, n.
[Lat. tenuitas, from tenuis, thin; O. Fr. ténuité, Sp. tenuidad, It. tenuità.]
- The state of being tenuous; smallness in diameter; exility; thinness, applied to a broad substance, and slenderness, applied to one that is long; as, the tenuity of paper or of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair or filament.
- Rarity; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air in the higher regions of the atmosphere; the tenuity of the blood.
- Poverty; indigence. [Obs.] K. Charles.
- Simplicity, or plainness. [Obs.]