substance

n

1. matter, material, stuff, medium, fabric; building blocks, sum and substance, stock; body, something, element, mass; meat, marrow, flesh and blood.

2. reality, actuality, realness, factuality, hypostatiza-tion; materiality, substantiality, substantialness, corporeality, corporeity, ponderability; concreteness, palpability, tangibility, physicality.

3. essence, essentiality, being, essential part, quiddity, haecceity, quintessence, Metaphys. hypostasis; principle, entity, suchness, essentialness; essential, fundamental, gravamen, main point, Latin, sine qua non. vital element, necessary condition; gist, meat, sum total, soul, core; crux, heart, Inf. nub, kernel; keystone, cornerstone, quoin, mainstay.

4. subject, subject matter, theme, thesis, motif; focus, topic, content, purport, text; point, issue, question, case, concern, interest.

5. solidity, density, firmness, stoutness, strength; steadiness, soundness, stability, durability.

6. consistency, body, thickness, stiffness, density, denseness, compactness; cohesion, viscosity, viscidity.

7. meaning, significance, signification, purport, intent, intention; gist, essence, spirit, pith; sense, drift, tenor, tone, vein; denotation, connotation, sense, idea; import, importance, gravity, weight, consequence, moment.

8. in substance

a. substantially, essentially, in essence, Latin, per se; fundamentally, basically, at heart, at bottom, Fr. au fond.b. actually, really, in reality, truly; in truth, truthfully, to tell the truth, veritably, verily; in point of fact, as a matter of fact, in fact, in effect, for all practical purposes, as it were, Fr. au fait.