tenuitās ātis, f tenuis, thinness, slenderness, fineness, smallness, tenuity: tanta ut fugiat aciem: tenuitas ipsa, slimness: crurum, Ph.

—Smallness, insignificance, poverty, indigence, scarcity: hominis earum rerum, quas terra procreet.

—Fig., of language, simplicity, plainness: rerum et verborum.