noun poverty; indigence.
2. tenuity ·noun refinement; delicacy.
3. tenuity ·noun rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.
4. tenuity ·noun 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.