solidness

solidness
noun
1. the consistency of a solid
• Syn: ↑solidity
• Ant: ↑porosity (for: ↑solidity)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑solid, ↑solid (for: ↑solidity)
• Hypernyms: ↑consistency, ↑consistence, ↑eubstance, ↑body
• Hyponyms: ↑compactness, ↑impermeability, ↑impermeableness
2. the quality of being substantial or having substance
• Derivationally related forms: ↑solid, ↑substantial (for: ↑substantialness), ↑substantial (for: ↑substantiality)
• Hypernyms: ↑materiality, ↑physicalness, ↑corporeality, ↑corporality
• Attrubites: ↑substantial, ↑real, ↑material, ↑insubstantial, ↑unsubstantial, ↑unreal
3. the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally
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the solidity of the evidence worked in his favor

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the solidness of her faith gave her enduring hope

• Syn: ↑solidity
• Derivationally related forms: ↑solid
4. the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape
• Syn: ↑solid, ↑solid state
• Derivationally related forms: ↑solid, ↑solidify (for: ↑solid)
• Hypernyms: ↑state of matter, ↑state

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