substance
Physical matter; material.
Other meanings
A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
Related words
- innominate substance
- all style and no substance
- ground substance
- Nissl substance
- perfluoroalkyl substance
- polyfluoroalkyl substance
- queen substance
- substance dependence
- economic substance
- exosubstance
- mucosubstance
- multisubstance
Word history
From Latin "substantia" (substance, essence).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “substance” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.