tenuity

Other forms of tenuity

plural

tenuities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tenuity

What does tenuity mean?

tenuity means "relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tenuity?

tenuity has 4 syllables: te-nu-i-ty. The stress falls on "nu".

What is another word for tenuity?

Close synonyms include thinness, slenderness, rarity, low density, feebleness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tenuity a common word?

tenuity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.