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substantiality|səbstænʃɪˈælɪtɪ|
[ad. late L. substantiālitas, f. substantiālis substantial; cf. F. substantialité, It. sostanzialità.]
1. The quality or state of being substantial; existence as a substance or substratum; substantial or real existence.
1545Bale Myst. Iniq. 34 Substancialite, deificalite, carnalite, corporalite. 1651[see magnesia 1]. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 863 The Grand Objection against this Substantiality of Souls Sensitive, as well as Rational. 1683J. Pordage Mystic Div. 79 This Love's Eternal Substantiality. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 44 The clothing of our spirits with the heavenly substantiality of the spiritual body and blood of..Jesus himself. 1830tr. Tenneman's Man. Hist. Philos. 344 Berkely..maintaining that our senses..do not afford us any proof of the existence or substantiality of their objects. 1863E. V. Neale Anal. Th. & Nat. 45 The accidents of a substance while they are effects of its substantiality, determine the character of the substance which causes them. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. x. 419 The ascription of independent substantiality to each of the different phases of intellectual life. 1880Greg Across the Zodiac I. vii. 167, I had afforded much stronger evidence, if not of my own substantiality, yet of the real existence of a repulsive energy.
attrib.1897tr. Fichte's Sci. Ethics 120 A mediating link between nature as mere mechanism (or the causality-relation); and freedom as the opposite of mechanism (or the substantiality-relation). 1902J. M. Baldwin's Dict. Philos. & Psychol., Substantiality Theory or Substantialism,..the theory that there are real substances, or distinct entities, underlying phenomenal facts or events.
†b. A substantial being or thing. Obs.
1651Biggs New Disp. Pref. 8 Real entities and substantialities. 1662Sparrow tr. Behmen's Rem. Wks. 43 This very Substantiality or Corporeity..was Christs heavenly Flesh and Bloud.
2. Soundness, genuineness; solidity of position or status.
1660R. Burney κέρδ. Δῶρον 19 He that is the Monarch is ἄριστος, and Aristocraticall men do but creep under his feet, and have better cloathes then substantiality of Rule. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. x. (1875) 410 The substantiality, soundness, and precision of Mr. Long's rendering are..conspicuous. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxiii, Whether she could not achieve substantiality for herself and know gratified ambition without bondage.
3. Solidity, firmness (of a structure).
1790Trans. Soc. Arts VIII. 112 The substantiality of the new wall. 1879W. L. Lindsay Mind in Lower Anim. I. 113 Many of the lower animals build themselves dwellings that excel in substantiality..the huts or hovels of men. 1891Winn Boating Man's Vade-M. 52 A boat of this kind..still survives, and vies in point of substantiality with many of more modern construction.
4. concr. (pl.) = substantial C 3.
1813Lamb Recoll. Christ's Hosp. Wks. 1818 I. 289 He..partook in all the mirth, and in some of the substantialities of the feasting. 1842Blackw. Mag. LI. 375 A ham and other substantialities composed our meal. 1842J. Wilson Recr. Chr. North I. 213 If not all the delicacies, at least all the substantialities, of the season. |
