substantialityn.
/səbˌstanʃɪˈalᵻti/, /səbˌstɑːnʃɪˈalᵻti/, U.S. /səbˌstæn(t)ʃiˈælədi/ 1.
a. The quality or state of being substantial; existence as a substance; substantial or real existence.In quot. 1588: used as a count noun.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [noun] > substantiality or subsistence
substancec1430
subsistence?a1475
substantialityc1480
subsisting1578
body1647
substantivity1851
c1480 Medulla Gram. (Pepys) f. 239 Substancialitas, substancialite.
1545 J. Bale Mysterye Inyquyte P. Pantolabus f. 34 Substancialite, deificalite, carnalite, corporalite.
1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike sig. ¶.3v Notwithstanding all their Persoities [sic], Formalities, Quiddities, Haecceities, Albedinities, Animalities, Substantialities, and such like, hee that would not gather gould out of Aquinas dregges, as Virgill did out of Ennius.
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs Pref. b 2 b We catch at onely painted Butter-flyes, and speculate not the Magnesia or substantiality of Physicks, but rather its Umbrage; not the Body, but the Bark, and superficial out side.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 863 The Grand Objection against this Substantiality of Souls Sensitive, as well as Rational.
1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 302 The clothing of our spirits with the heavenly substantiality of the spiritual body and blood of..Jesus himself.
1786 H. C. Albrecht Short Gram. German Tongue 21 The English language in General Names rather drops the Idea of Substantiality.
1832 A. Johnson tr. W. G. Tennemann Man. Hist. Philos. 344 Berkeley..maintaining that our senses..do not afford us any proof of the existence or substantiality of their objects.
1880 P. Greg Across Zodiac I. vii. 167 I had afforded much stronger evidence, if not of my own substantiality, yet of the real existence of a repulsive energy.
1954 J. Kerouac Let. 26 Aug. in Sel. Lett. 1940–56 (1995) 443 This ‘taste’ of cornflakes and sugar, the ‘taste’ has no substantiality of existence outside of my tongue and its taste-mind.
1979 W. Styron Shadrach 1 They had a sound yet slippery substantiality, evoking the tactile delight..of small precious globes of jade.
2003 F. L. Shults Reforming Theol. Anthropol. i. 23 This dialectical unity of substantiality and accidentality flows from Hegel's rejection of the hard distinction between form and content.
b. A substantial being or thing. Now rare.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [noun] > substantiality or subsistence > that which has substantial existence
substance1340
substant1597
substantiality1603
subsistence1605
subsistencya1628
existency1651
subsistent1656
substander1662
1603 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1842) II. 282 Ay and quhill it be sufficient to the effect abouewrittin keipand the substantialities of the premissis.
1648 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Descr. Three Princ. xxiii. 323 The pure holy substantiality; viz. the Angelicall world, the holy earth.
1662 J. Sparrow tr. J. Boehme Remainder of Bks. 43 This very Substantiality or Corporeity..was Christs heavenly Flesh and Bloud.
1706 R. Brocklesby Explic. Gospel-theism i. vii. 140/2 Not only the Notionalities of all things are in the Archetypal World, but the true Realities and Substantialities.
1833 T. S. Fay Crayon Sketches II. 62 Spring seems to be the favorite of the poets, who themselves, for the most part, live upon hopes and promises, rather than substantialities.
1881 G. H. Castree De Lunatico Inquirendo 27 The immigrants being a race whose habits of life and general type of character..enabled them to exist on mere pittances instead of substantialities for wage.
1912 Stud.: Irish Q. 1 580 It is when we come to the substantialities of poetry, when we look for that which satisfies and fills the whole human soul, that we find a lack and a disappointment.
2003 A. W. Hunt Vanishing Word viii. 187 We are a culture of simulations as opposed to substantialities, a culture of copies rather than originals.
2. Solidity, firmness (of a material, a structure, etc.).
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [noun]
fastness?a1200
spissitudec1440
solidiousness1495
grossness1527
massiveness1530
substantialness1530
substantiality1535
crassness1545
massiness1559
stiffness1577
spissness1598
solidness1600
density1603
solidity1603
crassitude1604
condensity1611
thightness1615
compactedness1644
compactness1646
body1647
crassities1659
denseness1669
tightnessa1728
corporeity1750
substantiability1816
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > [noun] > quality of building generally
solidity1662
substantiality1790
1535 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (rev. ed.) vi. xxi. f. lxxviiiv/2 Abowte meate of these thinges men shall take hede... That is to witte: Of meate the substantialitie, the qualite, the quantite.
1764 Gentleman's & London Mag. Feb. 89/1 What are ruffles without the substantiality of a holland sleeve, or the froth of a whip-syllabub without wine at the bottom?
1790 Trans. Soc. Arts 8 112 The substantiality of the new wall.
1828 Times 18 Mar. 3/6 A communication which he had made to the Survey-General's Office, relative to the erection of the walls, and their substantiality.
1879 W. L. Lindsay Mind in Lower Animals I. 113 Many of the lower animals build themselves dwellings that excel in substantiality..the huts or hovels of men.
1939 E. B. White in Harper's Mag. 329/2 The El [train] always seemed to me to possess exactly the right degree of substantiality: it seemed reasonably strong and able to carry its load.
1988 Oxf. Art Jrnl. 11 4/1 The sheer physical substantiality of surviving country house building.
2003 East Bay (Calif.) Express (Nexis) 12 Nov. Evoking something of the heaviness and substantiality of the old-fashioned metal bicycles.
3. Soundness, genuineness; solidity of position or status.
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society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > genuineness or solidity of position or status
substantiality1660
substantiability1816
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [noun]
validity1588
substantiality1660
validness1727
allowability1815
1660 R. Burney Κέρδιστον Δῶρον 19 He that is the Monarch is [Ἄριστος], and Aristocraticall men do but creep under his feet, and have better cloathes then substantiality of Rule.
1725 H. Jackson Longitude & Latitude ii. 13 It makes the Mind with Ease and Delight, receive a Right Idea, and Conception of the Truth and Substantiality of the Performance, in this Discovery.
1757 Obs. Establishm. Marine Forces 64 The Person or Persons..carried with them a Shew of Substantiality.
1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. ix. 278 The substantiality, soundness, and precision of [Mr. Long's] rendering are..conspicuous.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxiii. 91 Whether she could not achieve substantiality for herself and know gratified ambition without bondage.
1914 Methodist Rev. 96 868 The general substantiality of his character.
1971 P. Goodman Speaking & Lang. i. ii. 24 There is a permanent substantiality in certain texts that goes far beyond their original purpose to communicate.
1996 Uri Geller's Encounters Dec. 26/2 It was also destined to confer an unexpected degree of scientific respectability and substantiality upon one of the stage magician's most intangible illusions.
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the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [noun] > solid or substantial food
substantials1751
solid1786
substantialities1813
1813 C. Lamb Recoll. Christ's Hosp. in Gentleman's Mag. 87 Suppl. 621/2 He..partook in all the mirth, and in some of the substantialities of the feasting.
1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 213 If not all the delicacies, at least all the substantialities, of the season.
1876 McBride's Mag. Aug. 199/1 The custom of the diner à la Russe, almost universally adopted in England, has thrown the door open to every kind of substitute for the substantialities of the feast.
Compounds
In sense 1a. General attributive, as substantiality-relation, substantiality theory.
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1870 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 4 113 A relation wherein the Non-Ego is dependent (substantiality-relation), and thus of a conflict of opposite directions in the Ego.
1897 A. Kroeger tr. J. G. Fichte Sci. Ethics 120 A mediating link between nature as mere mechanism (or the causality-relation); and freedom as the opposite of mechanism (or the substantiality-relation).
1902 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 614/1 Substantiality Theory or Substantialism,..the theory that there are real substances, or distinct entities, underlying phenomenal facts or events.
1995 F. Merrell-Wolff Transformations in Consciousness ix. 193 Opposed to the substantiality theory is the view that both the object of experience and the subject to experience are merely complexes of insubstantial elements, either material or psychical.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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