tenerity
English edit
Etymology edit
ten(d)er + -ity, from Latin teneritas. See tender.
Noun edit
tenerity (uncountable)
- (obsolete) tenderness
- 1880, “The Medical Advance”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- The flexure of the uterus and the tenerity of the posterior wall readily accounted for the early mistake as to the intra - uterine character
References edit
- “tenerity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.