Definitions for tenuities

tenuities te·nu·i·ty

Spelling: [tuh-noo-i-tee, -nyoo-, te-]
IPA: /təˈnu ɪ ti, -ˈnyu-, tɛ-/

Tenuities is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in tenuities (eeiinsttu).

Definitions for tenuities

noun

  1. the state of being tenuous.
  2. slenderness.
  3. thinness of consistency; rarefied condition.

Origin of tenuities

1525-35; Latin tenuitās thinness, equivalent to tenui(s) (see tenuis) + -tās -ty2

Examples for tenuities

By this contrivance the roving is drawn out into a thread of the desired degree of tenuity and hardness.

When taken in connection with its tenuity, these features show a highly developed potter's technique.

It is delicacy mixed with abundance; tenuity supported by generosity.

The tenuity of the atmosphere on Mars has another consequence.

It may be condensed to any extent by pressure, or expanded to an infinite degree of tenuity by pressure being removed from it.

The first thing that arrests our attention in these creatures is the extreme delicacy and tenuity of their substance.

They exist, of course, in varying degrees of tenuity and intensity and answer to a wide range of vibrations.

Birch branches are to be preferred on account of their tenuity.

The atoms interpenetrate in consequence of their differences of tenuity.

Air, in every degree of tenuity, refuses to act as a conductor of electricity.

Word Value for tenuities
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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