tenuity
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Thunder is the sub-bass nature furnishes her, and thus invites her to add the complementary notes Some one may think that all this tenuity is as vaporous as the stuff that dreams are made of, and call for solid rocks for foundations.
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- noun The quality or condition of being tenuous; lack of thickness, density, or substance.
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Thunder is the sub-bass nature furnishes her, and thus invites her to add the complementary notes Some one may think that all this tenuity is as vaporous as the stuff that dreams are made of, and call for solid rocks for foundations.
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This tenuity was the only hard word that I heard him use during this interview, and it will be observed, he instantly put another expression in its place.
— Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 -
Some one may think that all this tenuity is as vaporous as the stuff that dreams are made of, and call for solid rocks for foundations.
— Among the Forces - Whose verse is the thread of tenuity, — Lives of the English Poets
- Now the other horses were abreast, passing him. — Split Infinity
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- Middle English tenuite, from Old French, from Latin tenuitās, thinness, from tenuis, thin; see tenuous.
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/ (tĕ-no͞oˈĭ-tē, -nyo͞oˈ-)/
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