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Definitions: Tenuity |
TenuityNoun1. Relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width: "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope". 2. The quality of lacking intensity or substance; "a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"- Nathaniel Hawthorne. 3. A rarified quality: "the tenuity of the upper atmosphere". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tenuity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Synonyms: TenuitySynonyms: feebleness (n), low density (n), rarity (n), slenderness (n), thinness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: thickness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Narrowness Thinness | Thinness; Adjective: tenuity; emaciation, macilency, marcor. |
Rarity | Noun: rarity, tenuity; absence of solidity; subtility; subtilty, subtlety; sponginess, compressibility. |
Smallness | Noun: smallness; Adjective: littleness; (small size); tenuity; paucity; fewness; (small number); meanness, insignificance (unimportance); mediocrity, moderation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tenuity |
| English words defined with "tenuity": feebleness ♦ Intine ♦ low density ♦ rarity ♦ slenderness ♦ thinness ♦ Wiredraw. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "tenuity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrallim (attenuation, rarefaction, rarity), pakicë (exiguity, few, fewness, minority, paucity), imtësi (minuteness, particular), hollësi (circumstantiality, daintiness, detail, exility, feature, particularity, point, specification, subtlety), dobësi (adynamia, anaemia, anemia, debility, delicacy, disease, failing, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, fragility, frailty, goneness, impotence, impotency, inanimation, inanition, inanity, infirmity, labefaction, languish, languor, laxness, leanness, limpness, malady, marasmus, reaction, sinking, tabescence, vulnerability, washiness, weakness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | رقة (airiness, benignity, daintiness, delicacy, fineness, finesse, flimsiness, forgiveness, geniality, gentleness, graciousness, loveliness, neatness, polish, refinement, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sleeplessness, softness, suavity, subtlety, tenderling, tenderness, tenuousness, thinness), دقة (accuracy, closeness, delicacy, exactitude, exactness, fidelity, fineness, finesse, fussiness, nicety, preciseness, precision, promptitude, punctuality, refinement, reliability, rigor, rigour, strictness, subtlety, sureness, thoroughness, veracity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | слабост (asthenia, crack, debility, demerit, failing, fancy, feebleness, flabbiness, frailness, frailty, impotence, impotency, inanition, infirmity, insufficiency, leanness, partiality, poorness, shortcoming, tenderness, weakness), тънкост (delicacy, exility, fineness, subtlety), оскъдност (exiguity, paucity, scantiness), простота (amplitude, homeliness, ingenuousness, innocence, plainness, rusticity, severity, simplicity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tenkost (thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ténuité (tenuousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dünnheit (fineness, gauntness, sparseness, tenuousness, thinness, wateriness, weakness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λεπτότησ (comity, delicacy, fineness, gauziness, niceness, nicety, polish, refinement, sleaziness, slenderness, slimness, subtlety, tact, tactfulness, tenuousness, thinness, ticklishness, waspishness), λεπτότητα (comity, consideration, daintiness, delicacy, fineness, finesse, flimsiness, gauziness, niceness, nicety, polish, refinement, sleaziness, slenderness, slightness, slimness, subtlety, tact, tactfulness, tenuousness, thinness, ticklishness, waspishness), αραιότησ (rareness, rarity, sparseness, tenuousness, thinness), αραιότητα (rareness, rarity, sparseness, tenuousness, thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "קיקות (tenuouseness), "קות (delicacy, fineness, flimsiness, niceness, nicety, subtlety, thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vékonyság (exility, tenuousness, thinness), vértelenség (ischemia, tenuousness), ritkaság (curio, curiosity, rara avis, rareness, rarity, scarcity, sleaziness, tenuousness), hígság (tenuousness, thinness, wateriness), gyérség (tenuousness), finomság (daintiness, delicacy, elegance, elegancy, fineness, finesse, gentility, morbidezza, subtlety, tenuousness, title), erőtlenség (debility, incapacity, limpness, tenuousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tenuit (flimsiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thannid (attenuation, leanness, liquidity, rareness, scragginess, shallowness, spareness, thinness; two year old sheep, weediness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enuitytay tenuidade (exility), rarefação (rarefaction, rareness, rarity, vacuum), finura (daintiness, fineness, finesse, subtlety, tact, tenderness), delgadeza. (various references) subţirime (slimness, thinness), slãbiciune (debility, decrepitude, defect, droop, failing, faintness, feebleness, flimsiness, foible, infirmity, languor, leanness, liking, propensity, shortcoming, weakness), sãrãcie a stilului, rarefiere a aerului, insuficienţã (deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency, paucity, shortage, shortcoming, want). (various references) разреженность (rarefaction, vacuity). (various references) tankoća, tananost (niceness), slabost (faintness, frailty, infirmity, malaise, poorness, remoteness, weakness). (various references) tenuidad (feebleness, weakness). (various references) tunnhet (fragility, rarefaction, thinness), finhet (daintiness, delicacy, fineness, gentility, gentillity, nicety). (various references) розрідженість (rarefaction, rareness, rarity), розведеність, бідність (bareness, humility, meanness, misery, necessity, need, penury, poorness, poverty, shabbiness, underprivilege). (various references) tính chất nhỏ. (various references) teneuwch (leanness, thinness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "tenuity" (pronounced 'Te*nu"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability, Alterity, Alternity, Amability, Ambidexterity, Ambiguity, Amenability, Amenity, Amiability, Amicability, Amissibility, Amity, Amorosity, Amovability, Anaplasty, Anfractuosity, Anglicity, Angularity, Angulosity, Anility, Animality, Animosity, Annuity, Annularity, Anonymity, Anteriority, Antiquity, Anxiety, Appetibility, Applicability, Apprehensibiity, Approachability, Appropinquity, Apriority, Aqueity, Aquosity, Aridity, Artificiality, Asininity, Asperity, Assiduity, Assignability, Assimilability, Associability, Astucity, Atomicity, Atrocity, Attainability, Attractability, Attractivity, Audacity, Audibility, Austerity, Authenticity, Authority, Autoplasty, Autostability, availability, Avidity, Banality, Barbarity, Basicity, Batty, BEAUTY, Benignity, Bestiality, Betty, Bibacity, Biblicality, Biformity, Bilaterality, Biplicity, Bipolarity, Bolty, Booty, BOUNTY, Brevity, Bridalty, Brutality, Butty, Caducity, Calamity, Calidity, Caliginosity, Callidity, Callosity, Caloricity, Canonicity, Canthoplasty, Canty, Capability, Capacity, Capillarity, Captivity, Cariosity, Carnality, Carnivoracity, Carnosity, Casualty, Catholicity, Catty, Causality, Cavity, Cecity, Celebrity, Celerity, Centrality, Centricity, Cerebricity, Certainty, Champerty, Changeability, Charity, Chastity, Cheiloplasty, Christianity, Circuity, Circularity, Circumstantiality, Civillty, Clandestinity, Clarity, Clericity, Clivity, Clotty, Coactivity, Coagulability, Coequality, Coessentiality, Coeternity, Cogitability, Cognoscibility, Cohesibility, Collectivity, Colloidality, Columnarity, Combustibility, Comicality, Comity, Commensality, Commensurability, Commodity, Commonalty, Commonty, Communicability, Community, Commutability, Compaternity, Compatibility, Complexity, Complicity, Comprehensibility, Compressibility, Concavity, Concentricity, Conceptibility, Concinnity, Condensability, Condignity, Conditionality, Conducibility, Conductibility, Conductivity, Confinity, Confluxibility, Conformability, Conformity, Confraternity, Confusability, Congeniality, Congruity, Conicality, Conjugality, Connaturality, Connubiality, Consanguinity, Consentaneity, Conspectuity, Conspicuity, Constitutionality, Consubstantiality, Contemporaneity, Contemptibility, Contiguity, Continuity, Contractibility, Contractility, Contrariety, Controllability, Conventionality, Convertibility, Convexity, Convicinity, Conviviality, Cordiality, Coreplasty, Corporality, Corporeality, Corporeity, Corrigibility, Corrodibility, Corrosibility, Corruptibility, Cosurety, Cotqueanity, County, Credibility, Credulity, Criminality, Crinosity, Crocodility, Crudity, Cruelty, Cullibility, Culpability, Cupidity, Curability, Curiality, Curiosity, Curvilinearity, Curvity, Cutty, Cylindricity, Cytty, Damnability, Debility, Debonairity, Deceptivity, Deciduity, Declivity, Deducibility, Defectibility, Defectuosity, Defensibility, Deflagrability, Deformity, Deiformity, Deity, Demisability, Democraty, Demonstrability, Demurity, Density, Deplorability, Depravity, Deputy, Descendibility, Desirability, Despicability, Destructibility, Deteriority, Determinability, Detestability, Devexity, Devotionality, Dexterity, Dextrality, Diaphaneity, Dibasicity, Dicacity, Didacticity, Difficulty, Difformity, Diffusibility, Diffusivity, Digestibility, Dignity, Dilatability, Dimensity, Dimity, Disability, Disassiduity, Discommodity, Discommunity, Disconformity, Discongruity, Discontinuity, Discoverability, Disensanity, Disformity, Dishonesty, Disingenuity, Disloyalty, Disparity, Disproperty, Disputacity, Disquantity, Disreputability, Disrespectability, Dissimilarity, Dissipativity, Dissociability, Dissolubility, Dissolvability, Distensibility, Disunity, Diuturnity, Diversifiability, Diversity, Divinity, Divisibility, Docility, Docity, Domesticity, Dotty, Doty, Doughty, Drasty, Duality, Dubiety, Dubiosity, Ductility, Duplicity, Durability, Durity, Duty, Dynasty, Ebriety, Ebriosity, Eccentricity, Edacity, Edibility, Educability, Efficacity, Effumability, Egality, Egoity, Elasticity, Electorality, Elementality, Elementarity, Eligibility, Ellipticity, Emotivity, Empty, Enmity, Enomoty, Enormity, Entierty, Entirety, Entity, Ephoralty, Epulosity, Equability, Equality, Equanimity, Equilibrity, Equity, Erectility, Essentiality, Eternity. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-t-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: entity, tenuti. | |
-2 letters: netty, nitty, nutty, tenty, unite, unity, untie. | |
-3 letters: etui, nett, nite, tent, tine, tint, tiny, tune, tyin, tyne, unit, yeti, yett. | |
-4 letters: net, nit, nut, ten, tet, tie, tin, tit, tui, tun, tut, tye, yen, yet, yin. | |
-5 letters: en, et, in, it, ne, nu, ti, un, ut, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-t-t-u-y" | |
+3 letters: neutrality, quaternity, tutoyering. | |
+4 letters: anticruelty, eventuality, intercounty, intuitively, nutritively, strenuosity, tautonymies, uncertainty. | |
+5 letters: authenticity, butterflying, constituency, intercountry, interfaculty, mutagenicity, pneumaticity, simultaneity, unsettlingly, unsystematic, untenability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6E 75 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . -. ..- .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101110 01110101 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e n u i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006E 0075 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54718087758691 |
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