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noun
The state or quality of being solid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: solidity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dependability, dependableness, reliability, reliableness
noun
the quality of being substantial or having substance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: substantiality, substantialness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: materiality, physicalness, corporeality, corporality
noun
the consistency of a solid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: solidity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: consistency, consistence, eubstance, body
Narrower terms: compactness, impermeability, impermeableness
noun
the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: solid, solid state
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: state of matter, state
History
Etymology tree Latin solidusder. Old French solidebor. Middle English solide English solid Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English solidness From solid + -ness.
