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Grammar : Noun
Spell : suhb-stan-shuhl
Phonetic Transcription : səbˈstæn ʃəl

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Définition of substantiality

Origin :
  • mid-14c., "ample, sizeable," from Old French substantiel (13c.), from Latin substantialis "having substance or reality, material," from substantia (see substance). Meaning "existing, having real existence" is from late 14c.
  • As in life : noun being
  • As in matter : noun substance
  • As in opulence : noun wealth
  • As in reality : noun facts of existence
  • As in size : noun extent or bulk of some dimension
  • As in stability : noun resistance of some degree
  • As in wealth : noun money, resources
  • As in actuality : noun something that truly exists, is real
  • As in sizableness : noun size
  • As in stableness : noun stability
  • As in steadiness : noun stability
  • As in sturdiness : noun stability
  • As in sureness : noun stability
  • As in density : noun bulk, mass
  • As in fact : noun verifiable truth; reality
  • As in firmness : noun immovability
Example sentences :
  • Like the other Jewish philosophers he defends its substantiality.
  • Extract from : « A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy » by Isaac Husik
  • The place breathes of substantiality, democracy, and good nature.
  • Extract from : « Abroad at Home » by Julian Street
  • It would be more exact to call it the conception of substantiality.
  • Extract from : « The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. » by Various
  • In the same way the intelligible substances, Intelligence and Soul, have their substantiality in common, and they differ in form.
  • Extract from : « A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy » by Isaac Husik
  • All these difficulties, however, tell against the substantiality of ghosts; and in favor of this second theory of haunted houses.
  • Extract from : « True Ghost Stories » by Hereward Carrington
  • By denying the substantiality of the ego it also confirmed the necessitarianism of Spinoza.
  • Extract from : « History of Modern Philosophy » by Alfred William Benn
  • But this destroys the substantiality of the Idea, and indeed, destroys Plato's whole system.
  • Extract from : « A Critical History of Greek Philosophy » by W. T. Stace
  • Alice felt herself light, clear and vacuous, absorbed in the substantiality of this picture.
  • Extract from : « The Narrow House » by Evelyn Scott
  • It was, for instance, the Greek genius in its old age which gave the substantiality of thought to the doctrine of the Trinity.
  • Extract from : « Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol I of 2) » by John Addington Symonds
  • Their sense of truth and substantiality is not satisfied with a formulation of mechanical sequence.
  • Extract from : « The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays » by Thorstein Veblen

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