attenuityn.
/atəˈnjuːɪti/ = tenuity n. 1.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > slenderness > [noun]
fineness?1537
slendernessa1538
finesse1551
tenuity1578
gracility1623
gracileness1727
exility1750
attenuity1830
1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 28 387 Not so much as the taperest wine-glass wire-woven into almost invisible attenuity.
1861 Temple Bar 3 437 No cotton-yarn of such attenuity as this can be..woven.
1898 Echo 22 June 1/4 Drawing his thin willowy form..to its full attenuity.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.1830- undershoots
- undershore
- undershortening
- undershorts
- undershortses
- undershot
- undershot mill
- undershot wheel
- undershred
- undershrievalty
- undershrub
- undershrubby
- undershrubs
- undershut
- underside
- underside-couched
- underside-couching
- undersidecouched
- undersidecouching
- undersides
- undersight
- undersign
- undersigned
- undersigner
- undersigning