substance

Meanings

Noun

• Physical matter; material.
• The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
• Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
• Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
• A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
• Drugs
• Hypostasis.

Verb

• To give substance to; to make real or substantial.

Origin

• From Middle English substance, from Old French substance, from Latin substantia, from substāns, present active participle of substō, from sub + stō.