Crossword-Solution: TENUITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tenuity | n. | The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair. |
| Tenuity | n. | Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood. |
| Tenuity | n. | Poverty; indigence. |
| Tenuity | n. | Refinement; delicacy. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “TENUITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Lack of substance | 1 answer |
| Rarefied condition | 1 answer |
| BODY (ant.) | 3 answers |
| Feebleness | 14 answers |
| Thinness. | 21 answers |
| insubstantiality | 35 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TENUITY (5)
They had the tall curve of elms, the tenuity of poplars, the ashen colour of olives under a rainy sky; and they stretched ahead of me for half a mile or more without a break in their arch.
But its efforts, it must be acknowledged, served an excellent purpose; for, with each successive whiff, the figure lost more and more of its dizzy and perplexing tenuity and seemed to take denser substance.
Science can now educe threads of such exquisite tenuity that only the feet of the tiniest infant-spiders can ascend them; but up the filmiest insubstantiality Shelley runs with agile ease.
Otherwise we are likely to feel chilly: we grow too fine where tenuity of stature is necessarily buffetted by gales, namely, in our self-esteem.
The suspended substances will have been all the lighter and finer particles of the upper beds where the disintegration had been extreme; and particularly their mica, which, owing to the tenuity of its plate-shaped crystals, would be most readily carried up by the ascending fluid, and will have remained longest in suspension.
Quotes with TENUITY (1)
We may properly and profitably amuse ourselves by distinguishing those writers who are respectively 'father-ridden,' 'son-ridden,' and 'ghost-ridden.' It is the mark of the father-ridden that they endeavor to impose the idea directly upon the mind and senses, believing that his is the whole of the work... Among the son-ridden, we may place such writers as Swinburne, in whom the immense ingenuity and sensuous loveliness of the manner is developed out of all proportion to the t…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1958–2012).