Thesaurus / tenuity
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synonyms for tenuity
- delicacy
- emaciation
- fineness
- gauntness
- inadequacy
- meagerness
- rarity
- scantiness
- shallowness
- slimness
- spareness
- sparseness
- incompactness
- subtilization
- subtilty
antonyms for tenuity
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How to use tenuity in a sentence
The air seemed what we call “hollow” and had apparently hardly enough tenuity to convey sounds.
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF AMBROSE BIERCEAMBROSE BIERCEBy this contrivance the roving is drawn out into a thread of the desired degree of tenuity and hardness.
THE NEW GRESHAM ENCYCLOPEDIA. VOL. 1 PART 2VARIOUSHe was frightened by the expression of her face, whose pallor and extreme tenuity had something fatal about it.
THE TRAPPER'S DAUGHTERGUSTAVE AIMARDIn only one case, I believe I saw bifurcating cement-ducts, of extreme tenuity, viz.
A MONOGRAPH ON THE SUB-CLASS CIRRIPEDIA (VOLUME 2 OF 2)CHARLES DARWINThe tenuity of the film increases; its cohesion is overcome; lakelets are formed, and they merge into each other.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, NO. 561, OCTOBER 2, 1886VARIOUSLet the grace of the narrative, therefore, and the concern we take in each other's matters, make amends for its tenuity.
RED GAUNTLETSIR WALTER SCOTTComets consist of cosmical matter which exists in a condition of extreme tenuity, and especially so in the coma and tail.
THE ASTRONOMY OF MILTON'S 'PARADISE LOST'THOMAS ORCHARDHearing it, one divines the extreme tenuity and the amplitude of the vibrating membranes.
SOCIAL LIFE IN THE INSECT WORLDJ. H. FABREThere were moments of her vigil when she tried to reassure herself with the very tenuity of her reasons for alarm.
THE INNER SHRINEBASIL KINGIt is whether the nucleus of a comet is an opaque solid body, a cluster of such bodies, or a mass of particles of extreme tenuity.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 6, SLICE 7VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO TENUITY
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