Definition of Substance

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Substance

That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, in distinction from that which is apparent; the abiding part of any existence, in distinction from any accident; that which constitutes anything what it is; real or existing essence.

The most important element in any existence; the characteristic and essential components of anything; the main part; essential import; purport.

Body; matter; material of which a thing is made; hence, substantiality; solidity; firmness; as, the substance of which a garment is made; some textile fabrics have little substance.

Material possessions; estate; property; resources.

Same as Hypostasis, 2.

To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.

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Substance Quotations

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mohandas Gandhi

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
Les Brown

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
Victor Hugo

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Victor Hugo

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
Marquis de Sade

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
Mary Wollstonecraft

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke

Substance Translations

substance in Danish is stof
substance in Dutch is spul, stof, goedje, substantie
substance in French is substance
substance in German is Wesentliches
substance in Italian is sostanza
substance in Latin is materia, substantia
substance in Spanish is substancia, sustancia
substance in Swedish is huvudsak

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