tenuity
Quality of flimsiness
Tenuity is the quality of being thin, slender, or insubstantial.
The word applies to physical things—the tenuity of a spider's silk, the tenuity of high-altitude air—and to abstractions: the tenuity of his argument, the tenuity of their connection.
It suggests something stretched so thin it might break or vanish.
Narrow, slight quality
- finenessPurity or thinness measure
- slimnessState of being thin
- narrownessConfined width quality
- filminessTranslucent, delicate quality
wispiness · gossamer · threadlike · hairline · filament · gauziness · sheerness · delicacy
Insufficiency of amount
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- sparsityLack of abundance
- rarityUncommon occurrence
- meagernessInsufficiency in amount
insufficiency · exiguity · scantiness · deficiency · lack · inadequacy · shortage · want
Ease of breaking
- flimsinessLack of strength
- insubstantialityAbsence of physical substance
- feeblenessLack of strength
- frailtyWeakness of body
delicateness · precariousness · vulnerability · brittleness · unsubstantiality · flaccidity · debility · ephemerality
Decrease in density
- diffusenessExcessive, unfocused expression
- subtletyFine distinction, easily missed
- airinessLightness and openness
- lightnessMinimal weight or gravity
vaporousness · refinement · dilution · dispersal · dissipation
slenderness
Narrow, slight quality
- finenessPurity or thinness measure
- slimnessState of being thin
- narrownessConfined width quality
filminess · wispiness · gossamer · threadlike · hairline · filament · gauziness · sheerness · delicacy · pencil-thin
paucity
Insufficiency of amount
meagerness · insufficiency · exiguity · scantiness · deficiency · lack · inadequacy · shortage · want · infrequency
fragility
Ease of breaking
- flimsinessLack of strength
- insubstantialityAbsence of physical substance
- feeblenessLack of strength
frailty · delicateness · precariousness · vulnerability · brittleness · unsubstantiality · flaccidity · debility · ephemerality · transience
rarefaction
Decrease in density
- diffusenessExcessive, unfocused expression
- subtletyFine distinction, easily missed
- airinessLightness and openness
lightness · vaporousness · refinement · dilution · dispersal · dissipation
tenuitythickness
Depth of material
density · solidity · substantiality · corpulence · bulkiness
tenuous, attenuated, attenuate, extenuate, extenuating, attenuation, tenuously, extenuation, attenuates