sub·stan·tial

(səb-stăn′shəl)

adj.

1. Considerable in importance, value, degree, amount, or extent: made a substantial improvement; won by a substantial margin.

2. Solidly built; strong: substantial houses.

3. Ample; sustaining: a substantial breakfast.

4. Possessing wealth or property; well-to-do.

a. Of, relating to, or having substance; material.

b. True or real; not imaginary.

6. Achieving the goal of justice itself, not merely the procedure or form that is a means to justice: principles of substantial justice.

[Middle English substancial, from Old French substantiel, from Latin substantiālis, from substantia, substance; see substance.]

sub·stan′ti·al′i·ty (-shē-ăl′ĭ-tē), sub·stan′tial·ness (-shəl-nĭs) n.

sub·stan′tial·ly adv.

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Noun

substantialness - the quality of being substantial or having substance

substantiality, solidness

corporality, corporeality, physicalness, materiality - the quality of being physical; consisting of matter

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