substantiality

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Abstract relations, for instance, divided into existence; relation; quantity; etc – and existence divided into existence; non-existence; substantiality; insubstantiality; intrinsicality; extrinsicality, and so on.

From The Guardian • May 1, 2017

The fourth fair-use criterion—the “amount and substantiality of the portion used”—could be trickier.

From Slate • Sep. 30, 2014

North Wales Police said the inquiry took five years and the scam was largest fraud ever to be investigated by the police force by a considerable margin in terms of value, complexity and substantiality.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2013

We know that within, throughout, the solid substantiality of our experience, indeterminacy reigns.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2010

He knows it, and the knowledge gives him more reality than most people own: a solidness of being, a substantiality, a human grandeur.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin