Tenuousness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    the quality of being tenuous uncountable

Synonyms

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airinessimmaterialityincorporealityinsubstantialityintangibilityinvisibility

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"The use of sea imagery helps to convey the speaker's sense of relative freedom, as well as the tenuousness of this freedom."

Etymology

From tenuous + -ness.

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