Definitions for substance

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substance sub·stance

Spelling: [suhb-stuh ns]

IPA: /ˈsʌb stəns/

Substance is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 510 anagrams from letters in substance (abcensstu).

Definitions for substance

noun

1. that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material:
2. a species of matter of definite chemical composition:
3. controlled substance.
4. the subject matter of thought, discourse, study, etc.
5. the actual matter of a thing, as opposed to the appearance or shadow; reality.
6. substantial or solid character or quality:
7. consistency; body:
8. the meaning or gist, as of speech or writing.
9. something that has separate or independent existence.
10. Philosophy. something that exists by itself and in which accidents or attributes inhere; that which receives modifications and is not itself a mode; something that is causally active; something that is more than an event. the essential part of a thing; essence. a thing considered as a continuing whole.
11. possessions, means, or wealth:
12. Linguistics. the articulatory or acoustic reality or the perceptual manifestation of a word or other construction (distinguished from form).
13. a standard of weights for paper.

Idioms

1. in substance, concerning the essentials; substantially. actually; really:

Origin of substance

1250-1300; Middle English Latin substantia substance, essence (literally, that which stands under, i.e., underlies), equivalent to sub- sub- + -stant- (stem of stāns,

Examples for substance

The substance of a lady's letter, it has been said, always is comprised in the postscript.

True, a solid majority backs the Democratic position on the substance.

Scalise spoke briefly, adding little of substance, saying that the people back home know him best.

To all appearance, the rock was as firmly fastened as any other portion of the earth's substance.

Those with a slightly sleazier bent have dredged up reports of his weight gain, substance abuse, and arrest.

substance of one of Lovelace's letters, of her answer, and of his reply.

Things got even more serious when Cosby moved on to the subject of substance abuse and children.

Till when, I will give you the substance of what I wrote him yesterday.

You have the wisdom that grasps the substance and lets the shadows flit.

substance abuse was already an issue Cosby had grown particularly passionate about.