SOLIDITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does solidity mean? 

• SOLIDITY (noun)
  The noun SOLIDITY has 3 senses:

1. the consistency of a solid

2. state of having the interior filled with matter

3. the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally

  Familiarity information: SOLIDITY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLIDITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The consistency of a solid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

solidity; solidness

Hypernyms ("solidity" is a kind of...):

body; consistence; consistency; substance (the property of holding together and retaining its shape)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "solidity"):

compactness (the consistency of a compact solid)

impermeability; impermeableness (the property of something that cannot be pervaded by a liquid)

Antonym:

porosity (the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids)

Derivation:

solid (not soft or yielding to pressure)

Sense 2

Meaning:

State of having the interior filled with matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("solidity" is a kind of...):

fullness (the condition of being filled to capacity)

Attribute:

solid (entirely of one substance with no holes inside)

hollow (not solid; having a space or gap or cavity)

Antonym:

hollowness (the state of being hollow: having an empty space within)

Derivation:

solid (entirely of one substance with no holes inside)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

solidity; solidness

Context example:

the solidness of her faith gave her enduring hope

Hypernyms ("solidity" is a kind of...):

dependability; dependableness; reliability; reliableness (the quality of being dependable or reliable)

 Context examples 

Pride, observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, is a very common failing, I believe.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Also, it looked as solid as the earth, but was without any solidity at all.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

My liveliness and your solidity would produce perfection.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was a sight which I shall never forget until my dying day—so weird, so impossible, that I do not know how I am to make you realize it, or how in a few years I shall bring myself to believe in it if I live to sit once more on a lounge in the Savage Club and look out on the drab solidity of the Embankment.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We have had some dramatic entrances and exits upon our small stage at Baker Street, but I cannot recollect anything more sudden and startling than the first appearance of Thorneycroft Huxtable, M.A., Ph.D., etc. His card, which seemed too small to carry the weight of his academic distinctions, preceded him by a few seconds, and then he entered himself—so large, so pompous, and so dignified that he was the very embodiment of self-possession and solidity.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was sprawling through solidity.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She rated his abilities much higher than any of the others; there was a solidity in his reflections which often struck her, and though by no means so clever as herself, she thought that if encouraged to read and improve himself by such an example as hers, he might become a very agreeable companion.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)