substance
noun
[ ˈsʌbst(ə)ns ]
• a particular kind of matter with uniform properties.
• "a steel tube coated with a waxy substance"
• the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists and which has a tangible, solid presence.
• "proteins compose much of the actual substance of the body"
Similar:
solidity,
body,
corporeality,
reality,
actuality,
materiality,
concreteness,
tangibility,
density,
mass,
weight,
shape,
structure,
• the quality of being important, valid, or significant.
• "he had yet to accomplish anything of substance"
• the essential nature underlying phenomena, which is subject to changes and accidents.
Origin:
Middle English (denoting the essential nature of something): from Old French, from Latin substantia ‘being, essence’, from substant- ‘standing firm’, from the verb substare .
in substance
• essentially.
• "basic rights are equivalent in substance to human rights"
