noun
Meaning 1
The state or quality of being sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
soundness
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Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
The result or product of being sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The property (of an argument) of not only being valid, but also of having true premises.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences
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noun
Meaning 4
The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is a theorem then it must also be valid. Symbolically, letting T represent a theory within logic L, this can be represented as the property that whenever T⊢φ is true, then T⊨φ must also be true, for any wff φ of logic L.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
the muscle tone of healthy tissue
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his muscular firmness
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: firmness
Antonyms: unsoundness
Broader terms: strength
noun
Meaning 6
the quality of being prudent and sensible
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wisdom, wiseness
Antonyms: unsoundness
Broader terms: good, goodness
Narrower terms: advisability, reasonableness
noun
Meaning 7
a state or condition free from damage or decay
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unsoundness
Broader terms: condition, status
Narrower terms: seaworthiness, fitness, airworthiness
History
Etymology
From Middle English soundenes, soundnes, from Old English *sundnes, *ġesundnes (attested in onsundnes), from Proto-West Germanic *sundnassī (“soundness, health”); equivalent to sound + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian sûnens (“soundness, health”), Middle Low German suntnisse (“soundness, health”), Middle High German suntnisse (“soundness, health”), German Gesundnis (“health”).
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Irish: folláine — the state or quality of being sound
- Norwegian Nynorsk: heilskap — the state or quality of being sound
- Norwegian Nynorsk: traustleik — the state or quality of being sound
- Norwegian Nynorsk: rettkomenskap — the state or quality of being sound
- Norwegian Nynorsk: rettvise — the state or quality of being sound
- Romanian: trăinicie — the state or quality of being sound
- Romanian: soliditate — the state or quality of being sound
- Romanian: robustețe — the state or quality of being sound
- Norwegian Nynorsk: heilskap — the result or product of being sound
- Norwegian Nynorsk: traustleik — the result or product of being sound
- Norwegian Nynorsk: rettkomenskap — the result or product of being sound
- Norwegian Nynorsk: rettvise — the result or product of being sound
- Romanian: soliditate — the result or product of being sound
- Catalan: completesa — the property of logical theory
- Spanish: completitud — the property of logical theory