noun
1. the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) (Freq. 1)
• Syn: ↑infirmity, ↑frailty, ↑debility, ↑frailness, ↑valetudinarianism
• Derivationally related forms: ↑frail (for: ↑frailness), ↑feeble, ↑debile (for: ↑debility), ↑debilitate (for: ↑debility), ↑infirm (for: ↑infirmity)
2. the quality of lacking intensity or substance
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"a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Syn: ↑tenuity
• Hypernyms: ↑weakness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.