ALL meanings of in substance
in sub·stance
I i - noun in substance that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance. 1
- noun in substance a species of matter of definite chemical composition: a chalky substance. 1
- noun in substance controlled substance. 1
- noun in substance the subject matter of thought, discourse, study, etc. 1
- noun in substance the actual matter of a thing, as opposed to the appearance or shadow; reality. 1
- noun in substance substantial or solid character or quality: claims lacking in substance. 1
- noun in substance consistency; body: soup without much substance. 1
- noun in substance the meaning or gist, as of speech or writing. 1
- noun in substance something that has separate or independent existence. 1
- noun in substance 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. 1
- noun in substance possessions, means, or wealth: to squander one's substance. 1
- noun in substance Linguistics. the articulatory or acoustic reality or the perceptual manifestation of a word or other construction (distinguished from form). 1
- noun in substance a standard of weights for paper. 1
- idioms in substance in substance, concerning the essentials; substantially. actually; really: That is in substance how it appeared to me. 1
- adverb in substance essentially 1
- noun in substance with regard to the salient points 0
- noun in substance with regard to essential elements 0
- noun in substance actually; really 0