Usually means: Weak or slight; lacking substance.
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  1. tenuousness: Merriam-Webster
  2. tenuousness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tenuousness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tenuousness: Wordnik
  5. tenuousness: Wiktionary
  6. tenuousness: Dictionary.com
  7. tenuousness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tenuousness: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tenuousness: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  the quality of being tenuous

Similar:
tensileness, flimsiness, tightness, tensibility, tenseness, tenuity, strainedness, tetchiness, untightness, tensility, more...

Opposite:
sturdiness, solidity, strength, stability

Types:
fragile, flimsy, weak, delicate, brittle, more...

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Similar:
tensileness, flimsiness, tightness, tensibility, tenseness, tenuity, strainedness, tetchiness, untightness, tensility, more...

Opposite:
sturdiness, solidity, strength, stability

Types:
fragile, flimsy, weak, delicate, brittle, more...



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