Substance

Word SUBSTANCE
Character 9
Hyphenation sub stance
Pronunciations /ˈsʌbstəns/

Definitions and meanings of "Substance"

What do we mean by substance?

That which has mass and occupies space; matter. noun

A material of a particular kind or constitution. noun

A drug, chemical, or other material (such as glue) that one is dependent on or uses habitually and that is often illegal or subject to government regulation. noun

The most important part or idea of what is said or written; the essence or gist. noun

That which is real or practical in quality or character; practical value. noun

Significance or importance. noun

Density; body. noun

Material possessions; goods; wealth. noun

To furnish with substance or property; enrich.

That which exists by itself, and in which accidents inhere; that which receives modifications, and is not itself a mode; that which corresponds, in the reality of things, to the subject in logic. noun

The real or essential part; the essence. noun

In theology, the divine being or essence, common to the three persons of the Trinity. noun

The character of being a substance, in sense 1; substantiality. noun

The meaning expressed by any speech or writing, or the purport of any action, as contradistinguished from the mode of expression or performance. noun

Substantiation; that which establishes or gives firm support. noun

Any particular kind of corporeal matter; stuff; material; part; body: specifically, a chemical species. noun

Wealth; means; good estate: as, a man of substance. noun

Importance. noun

Physical matter; material.

The essential part of anything; the most vital part.

Substantiality; solidity; firmness.

Material possessions; estate; property; resources.

A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.

Drugs (illegal narcotics)

Hypostasis.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Substance

The word "substance" in example sentences

Between cells there is a greater or less amount of a homogeneous substance -- the _intercellular substance_. ❋ Various (1909)

_, (1) That the Deity created the substance of these shapes and forms from _Nothing_; or else (2) that he created them out of _his own substance_ -- out of Himself, in fact. ❋ William Walker Atkinson (1897)

It frequently happens that the contortions or displacements due to motion are seen to affect a single line belonging to a particular substance, while the other lines of _that same substance_ remain imperturbable. ❋ Unknown (1874)

Beneath the endless diversity of the universe, of existence and action, there must be a principle of unity; below all fleeting appearances there must be a permanent substance; beyond this everlasting flow and change, this beginning and ending of finite existence, there must be an _eternal being_, the source and cause of all we see and know, _What is that principle of unity, that permanent substance_, or principle, or being? ❋ Unknown (1852)

They prove, too, that this is not merely true with one substance, as water, but generally with all electrolytic bodies; and, further, that the results obtained with any _one substance_ do not merely agree amongst themselves, but also with those obtained from _other substances_, the whole combining together into _one series of definite electro-chemical actions_ (505.). ❋ Michael Faraday (1829)

And for precisely the same reason, when we find another class of properties and powers existing in certain beings, which are totally different from those belonging to mere material substances, -- incapable not only of being identified with them, but also of being accounted for by means of them, -- we are equally warranted in ascribing these properties to a _substance_, and in affirming that this substance, of which we know nothing except through its properties, is radically different from "matter." ❋ James Buchanan (1837)

It has been said by our opponents, that if we found merely on the acknowledged difference between two sets of properties or phenomena, while we admit that the substance or substratum is in itself entirely unknown to us, or known only through the medium of the properties to which we refer, -- then the dispute becomes a purely _verbal_ one, and can amount to nothing more than this, whether a _substance_ of whose essence we are entirely ignorant should be called by the name of "matter" or by the name of "spirit." ❋ James Buchanan (1837)

a finer substance, and our body is rebuilt and fashioned from the indestructible _substance_ of the Universe. ❋ Julia Seton (N/A)

Lab Rat tagged me with the "blogging with substance" meme, which I think constitutes a tagging FAIL since I would hesitate to use the term substance as a ... ❋ GamesWithWords (2010)

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