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* Khmer: {{t+|km|វត្ថុ}}
* Khmer: {{t+|km|វត្ថុ}}
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* Korean: {{t+|ko|물질}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|물질}} ({{t|ko|物質|sc=Hani}})
* Kurdish:
* Kurdish:
*: Kurmanji: {{t+|ku|made}}
*: Kurmanji: {{t+|ku|made}}
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* Uyghur: {{t|ug|ماددا}}
* Uyghur: {{t|ug|ماددا}}
* Uzbek: {{t+|uz|modda}}
* Uzbek: {{t+|uz|modda}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|vật chất}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|vật chất}} ({{t|vi|物質|sc=Hani}})
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* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|lényeg}}, {{t+|hu|szubsztancia}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|lényeg}}, {{t+|hu|szubsztancia}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|骨子|tr=kosshi}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|骨子|tr=kosshi}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|본질}}, {{t+|ko|실질}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|본질}} ({{t|ko|本質|sc=Hani}}), {{t+|ko|실질}} ({{t|ko|實質|sc=Hani}})
* Latin: {{t|la|substantia|f}}
* Latin: {{t|la|substantia|f}}
* Maori: {{t+|mi|tino}}
* Maori: {{t+|mi|tino}}
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{{trans-top|substantiality; solidity; firmness}}
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* Finnish: {{t+|fi|rakenne}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|rakenne}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|실체}}, {{t+|ko|본질}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|실체}} ({{t|ko|實體|sc=Hani}}), {{t+|ko|본질}} ({{t|ko|本質|sc=Hani}})
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* Spanish: {{t+|es|enjundia}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|enjundia}}
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* Chinese:
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|资产}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|資產}}, {{t+|cmn|资产|tr=zīchǎn|sc=Hani}}, {{t+|cmn|財產}}, {{t+|cmn|财产|tr=cáichǎn|sc=Hani}}
* Danish: {{t|da|formue}}
* Danish: {{t|da|formue}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vara|alt=varat|p}}, {{t+|fi|varallisuus}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vara|alt=varat|p}}, {{t+|fi|varallisuus}}
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* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|vagyon}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|vagyon}}
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* Japanese: {{t+|ja|本質|tr=honshitsu}}, {{t|ja|実体|tr=jittai}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|자산}} ({{t|ko|資產|sc=Hani}}), {{t+|ko|재산}} ({{t|ko|財產|sc=Hani}})
* Korean: {{t+|ko|자산}}, {{t+|ko|재산}}, {{t+|ko|부}}
* Norwegian: {{t+|no|formue|m}}
* Norwegian: {{t+|no|formue|m}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|majątek|m}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|majątek|m}}
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* Chinese:
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|毒品}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|物質}}, {{t+|cmn|物质|tr=wùzhì}}, {{t|cmn|毒品|t=dúpǐn}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|aine|alt=aineet|p}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|aine|alt=aineet|p}}
* German: {{t+|de|Substanz|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Substanz|f}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|ουσίες|f-p}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|ουσίες|f-p}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|szer}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|szer}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|마약}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|마약}} ({{t|ko|麻藥|sc=Hani}})
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* Norwegian: {{t+|no|narkotika}}
* Norwegian: {{t+|no|narkotika}}
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* Interlingua: {{t-check|ia|substantia}}
* Interlingua: {{t-check|ia|substantia}}
* Italian: {{t+check|it|sostanza|f}}
* Italian: {{t+check|it|sostanza|f}}
* Korean: {{t+check|ko|실체}}, {{t+check|ko|물질}}
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* Lithuanian: {{t+check|lt|turinys}}
* Lithuanian: {{t+check|lt|turinys}}
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* Tibetan: {{t-check|bo|རྒྱུ}}
* Tibetan: {{t-check|bo|རྒྱུ}}
* Turkish: {{t+check|tr|madde}}
* Turkish: {{t+check|tr|madde}}
* Uyghur: {{t-check|ug|tr=madda}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+check|vi|chất}}
* Welsh: {{t+check|cy|sylwedd}}
* Welsh: {{t+check|cy|sylwedd}}
* Yiddish: {{t-check|yi|מאַטעריע|f}}
* Yiddish: {{t-check|yi|מאַטעריע|f}}

Revision as of 14:27, 20 April 2020

English

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French substance, from Latin substantia (“substance, essence”), from substāns, present active participle of substō (“exist”, literally “stand under”), from sub + stō (“stand”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

substance (countable and uncountable, plural substances)

  1. Physical matter; material.
    • 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
      Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
    • 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
      Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
    Synonyms: matter, stuff
  2. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Heroic virtue did his actions guide, / And he the substance, not the appearance, chose.
    • (Can we date this quote by Bishop Burnet and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      This edition is the same in substance with the Latin.
    • (Can we date this quote by Edmund Burke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      It is insolent in words, in manner; but in substance it is not only insulting, but alarming.
    Synonyms: crux, gist
  3. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
    Some textile fabrics have little substance.
  4. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
    a man of substance
    • Bible, Luke xv. 13
      And there wasted his substance with riotous living.
    • c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
      Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, / Cannot amount unto a hundred marks.
    • (Can we date this quote by Jonathan Swift and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      We are destroying many thousand lives, and exhausting our substance, but not for our own interest.
  5. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
  6. Drugs (illegal narcotics)
    substance abuse
    Synonyms: dope, gear
  7. (theology) Hypostasis.

Synonyms

Translations

theology: hypostasis — see hypostasis
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Verb

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  1. (rare, transitive) To give substance to; to make real or substantial.
    • 1873, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, The Other Girls, page 335:
      If life were nothing but what gets phrased and substanced, the world might as well be rolled up and laid away again in darkness.
    • 1982, Dhupaty V. K. Raghavacharyulu, The Song of the Red Rose and Other Poems, page 78:
      The calm ruminating / Reverie, substancing / Intellect into emotion, / Is shelter enough for love / Unhumiliated by faith.

See also

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin substantia (“substance, essence”), from substāns, present active participle of substō (“exist”, literally “stand under”), from sub + stō (“stand”).

Pronunciation

Noun

substance f (plural substances)

  1. substance

Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin substantia.

Noun

substance oblique singular, f (oblique plural substances, nominative singular substance, nominative plural substances)

  1. most essential; substantial part
  2. existence

Descendants

  • → English: substance
  • French: substance
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