tenuous (adj) - flimsy, weak, or thin; having little strength or substance [ten-yoo-uhs]
BREAKDOWN: TEN- (thin) + -OUS (having qualities of)
tenuity is a state of slenderness, flimsiness, or unimportance
“The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.” —Czeslaw Milosz
