SUBSTANTIALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does substantiality mean? 

• SUBSTANTIALITY (noun)
  The noun SUBSTANTIALITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being substantial or having substance

  Familiarity information: SUBSTANTIALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBSTANTIALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being substantial or having substance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

solidness; substantiality; substantialness

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

corporality; corporeality; materiality; physicalness (the quality of being physical; consisting of matter)

Attribute:

material; real; substantial (having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary)

insubstantial; unreal; unsubstantial (lacking material form or substance; unreal)

Antonym:

insubstantiality (lacking substance or reality)

Derivation:

substantial (having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary)

 Context examples 

If you twist in that way you will make me pull the hair out of your head; and then I think you will cease to entertain doubts of my substantiality.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was left with his singularly appropriate education; the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)