substantivenessn.
/səbˈstantᵻvnᵻs/, /ˈsʌbst(ə)ntᵻvnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈsəbstən(t)ɪvnᵻs/, /səbˈstæn(t)ɪvnᵻs/ The quality or condition of being substantive; independent or self-existent character.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [noun] > self-sufficiency
sufficiencec1384
suffisancea1450
self-sufficiency1598
autarky1617
self-dependencea1620
self-sufficience1623
self-subsistencea1631
self-support1632
self-fullness1668
self-reliance1668
self-dependency1749
self-sustainment1779
self-sustenance1786
self-sufficingness1811
substantiveness1821
self-sustentationa1832
self-containment1841
self-sufficientness1846
self-containing1850
self-supportedness1862
rugged individualism1898
1821 R. Huish Authentic Hist. Coronation George IV 150 These Coronations showed the independence and substantiveness of the Queen's right.
1845 J. H. Newman Ess. Devel. Christian Doctr. 43 The Conference Connexion remains the representative of the Wesleyan ideas; in its gradual independence and growing substantiveness.
1893 Daily News 14 Feb. 4/3 The masculine substantiveness of the character of the people.
1901 Cent. Mag. Sept. 766/2 Their [sc. the native population's] characteristics..have not at any time revealed any considerable substantiveness of character.
1965 W. K. Wimsatt Hateful Contraries 247 These essays..represent..an effort to return to something like a Dantesque historical and individual substantiveness.
2010 N.Y. Mag. (Nexis) 18 Jan. Whatever the sources of the controversies, all three reinforced doubts about Edwards's substantiveness and authenticity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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