ALL meanings of substance
sub·stance
S s - noun substance that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance. 1
- noun substance a species of matter of definite chemical composition: a chalky substance. 1
- noun substance controlled substance. 1
- noun substance the subject matter of thought, discourse, study, etc. 1
- noun substance the actual matter of a thing, as opposed to the appearance or shadow; reality. 1
- noun substance substantial or solid character or quality: claims lacking in substance. 1
- noun substance consistency; body: soup without much substance. 1
- noun substance the meaning or gist, as of speech or writing. 1
- noun substance something that has separate or independent existence. 1
- noun 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 substance possessions, means, or wealth: to squander one's substance. 1
- noun substance Linguistics. the articulatory or acoustic reality or the perceptual manifestation of a word or other construction (distinguished from form). 1
- noun substance a standard of weights for paper. 1
- idioms substance in substance, concerning the essentials; substantially. actually; really: That is in substance how it appeared to me. 1
- noun substance matter, material 1
- noun substance in speech, text 1
- noun substance physical being 1
- countable noun substance A substance is a solid, powder, liquid, or gas with particular properties. 0
- uncountable noun substance Substance is the quality of being important or significant. 0
- singular noun substance The substance of what someone says or writes is the main thing that they are trying to say. 0
- uncountable noun substance If you say that something has no substance, you mean that it is not true. 0
- noun substance the tangible matter of which a thing consists 0
- noun substance a specific type of matter, esp a homogeneous material with a definite composition 0
- noun substance the essence, meaning, etc, of a written or spoken thought 0
- noun substance solid or meaningful quality 0
- noun substance material density 0
- noun substance material possessions or wealth 0
- noun substance the supposed immaterial substratum that can receive modifications and in which attributes and accidents inhere 0
- noun substance a thing considered as a continuing whole that survives the changeability of its properties 0
- noun substance that which is eternal 0
- noun substance a euphemistic term for any illegal drug 0
- noun substance the real or essential part or element of anything; essence, reality, or basic matter 0
- noun substance the physical matter of which a thing consists; material 0
- noun substance matter of a particular kind or chemical composition 0
- noun substance solid quality; substantial character 0
- noun substance consistency; body 0
- noun substance the real content, meaning, or gist of something said or written 0
- noun substance material possessions; property; resources; wealth 0
- noun substance a drug 0
- noun substance something that has independent existence and is acted upon by causes 0