Solidity

Word SOLIDITY
Character 8
Hyphenation so lid i ty
Pronunciations /səˈlɪdɪti/

Definitions and meanings of "Solidity"

What do we mean by solidity?

The condition or property of being solid. noun

Soundness of mind, moral character, or finances. noun

The state or property of being solid. noun

The absolute impenetrability attributed by some metaphysicians to matter. noun

Fullness of matter: opposed to hollowness. noun

Massiveness; substantiality; hence, strength; stability. noun

Strength and firmness in general; soundness; strength; validity; truth; certainty. noun

In geometry, the quantity of space occupied by a solid body. noun

A solid body or mass. noun

The state or quality of being solid; density; consistency, -- opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness of matter, -- opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, -- opposed to weakness or instability; the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others; hardness; massiveness. noun

Moral firmness; soundness; strength; validity; truth; certainty; -- as opposed to weakness or fallaciousness. noun

The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of inclosed space. noun

The state or quality of being solid. noun

Moral firmness; validity; truth; certainty. noun

The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of inclosed space. noun

The consistency of a solid noun

The quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally noun

State of having the interior filled with matter noun

The state or quality of being solid.

Moral firmness; validity; truth; certainty.

The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of enclosed space.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Solidity

The word "solidity" in example sentences

Only I have thought the term solidity the more proper to express this idea, not only because of its vulgar use in that sense, but also because it carries something more of positive in it than impenetrability; which is negative, and is perhaps more a consequence of solidity, than solidity itself. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The result of not being able to appreciate this, is that the finiteness of our sense, caused by its dependence on Motion for excitation, surrounds us with illusions; one of these illusions is what we call solidity or continuity of sensation. ❋ Sydney T. Klein (1893)

But one reason for that solidity is that the General has something of a weight problem. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But you also get the sense that this solidity is like a sheen of oil floating on water; an acre wide and an atom deep, and beneath that surface there is nothing he really cares about more than himself. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And since the arrival of Robbie's letter there had come a certain solidity and reality to that visionary bond. ❋ Margaret (1891)

Lady Clara Augusta Mandeville, then, was a widow of some three or four-and-thirty, an age fatal to all mere prettiness, but an age at which all women of sterling beauty are in the full-blown radiance of their charms; their mind, too, if it possess any solidity, is then in full maturity; there is a glow of summer richness, which yet does not touch on autumn. ❋ Unknown (1845)

When the idea of solidity is excited a part of the extensive organ of touch is compressed by some external body, and this part of the sensorium so compressed exactly resembles in figure the figure of the body that compressed it. ❋ Unknown (1803)

The impressions, which enter by the sight and hearing, the smell and taste, are affirmed by modern philosophy to be without any resembling objects; and consequently the idea of solidity, which is supposed to be real, can never be derived from any of these senses. ❋ David Hume (1743)

The impressions, which enter by the sight and hearing, the smell and taste, are affirm'd by modern philosophy to be without any resembling objects; and consequently the idea of solidity, which is suppos'd to be real, can never be deriv'd from any of these senses. ❋ Unknown (1739)

Hackett was selling long-term solidity, not short-term thrill. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Investment analysts said the agreement should end months of feuding that had on occasion raised questions over the long-term solidity of the Bettencourt family as core shareholders. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(Travel businesses learned a long time ago to mistrust the long-term solidity of the lira.) ❋ Unknown (2008)

Long-term solidity is more important than fireworks that don’t last. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Having thus destroyed extent he concludes that solidity, which is attached to it, falls of itself, and therefore that there is nothing in the world but our ideas. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The best patterns are formed by parallel bars and circles, those with simple lilies conveying the idea of solidity, and with the least ornamentation, being preferable always. ❋ Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson (1907)

It has actual solidity in every inch of it, apart from the fact that it also conveys the idea of solidity, as any building must which has taken the place of one so misguided as to fall down. ❋ Harry [Illustrator] Morley (1903)

Always and everywhere there is a total absence of what we would call solidity; and the characteristics of impermanence seem to mark almost everything in the exterior life of the people, except, indeed, the immemorial costume of the peasant and the shape of the implements of his toil. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

We can grasp it intellectually, in its sharp solidity, which is undisturbed by any ornament: it is, to the mind, like some complete intellectual performance; the mind rests on it, like a demonstration in Euclid. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

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