Nearby Words
substance [suhb-stuhns]
Main Entry:
substance [suhb-stuhns]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: entity, element
Synonyms: actuality, animal, being, body, bulk, concreteness, core, corpus, fabric, force, hunk, individual, item, mass, material, matter, object, person, phenomenon, reality, something, staple, stuff, texture, thing
Main Entry: substance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: wealth
Synonyms: affluence, assets, estate, fortune, means, property, resources, riches, worth
Antonyms: poverty
Main Entry: actuality
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: something that truly exists, is real
Synonyms: achievement, actualization, attainment, brass tacks, fact, materiality, materialization, real world, reality, straight stuff, substance, substantiality, truth, what it is
Main Entry: amount
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: whole effect
Synonyms: body, burden, core, full value, import, matter, purport, result, sense, significance, substance, thrust, upshot, value
Notes: use 'amount' with things that cannot be counted but 'number' with things that can be counted
number is regularly used with count nouns, while amount is mainly used with mass nouns: number of mistakes, amount of money
Main Entry: article
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: item, object
Synonyms: commodity, dojigger, gizmo, piece, substance, thing, thingamabob, thingamajig, unit
Main Entry: being
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: essential nature
Synonyms: character, entity, essence, essentia, essentiality, individuality, marrow, personality, quintessence, self, soul, spirit, substance, texture
Main Entry: body
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bulk; central portion
Synonyms: assembly, basis, bed, box, chassis, core, corpus, crux, essence, frame, fuselage, gist, gravamen, groundwork, hull, main part, majority, mass, material, matter, pith, skeleton, staple, substance, substructure, sum, tenor, total, trunk, whole
Antonyms: nothing, nothingness
Main Entry: body
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: main part of written work
Synonyms: argument, burden, core, discourse, dissertation, evidence, exposition, gist, heart, material, meat, pith, sense, substance, text, thesis, treatise, upshot
Main Entry: bottom
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: base, core
Synonyms: basis, bottom line, cause, essence, essentiality, ground, heart, mainspring, marrow, origin, pith, principle, quintessence, root, soul, source, stuff, substance, virtuality
Antonyms: exteriority, outside
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