substance
Definition of substance:
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part of speech: noun
That in which qualities or attributes exist: that which constitutes anything what it is: the essential part: body: matter: property.
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part of speech: noun
The essence or material of a thing; the main part; that which really exists; body; something real or solid; goods; wealth; means of living.
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Common misspellings:
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- substanse (0.8%)
- subtance (36.1%)
- sustance (11.2%)
- sunstance (3.3%)
- susbtance (10.8%)
- substanced (2.1%)
- substane (0.8%)
- substnace (3.7%)
- susbstance (9.1%)
- subustance (0.8%)
- substace (6.6%)
- subatnce (0.8%)
- stubstance (1.7%)
- substence (8.3%)
- subsatnce (1.2%)
- substacnce (0.8%)
- substancfe (0.8%)
- susstance (0.8%)
Usage examples for substance:
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His substance all is gone; what would you have?
"Cromwell" – Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works) -
A hard substance rattled on the solid wood.
"The Allen House or Twenty Years Ago and Now" – T. S. Arthur -
It must therefore be a permanent in phenomena; and this must be the object itself or the substance of a phenomenon, i.
"Kant's Theory of Knowledge" – Harold Arthur Prichard -
Yet if Holy Wisdom has only in the East a magnificent visible symbol, Holy Wisdom is none the less the very foundation, substance and aim of the Western Church as well as of the Eastern, yea of the one, holy Catholic Church.
"The Agony of the Church (1917)" – Nikolaj Velimirovic
