| Main Entry: | substance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entity, element |
Synonyms: |
actuality, animal, being, body, bulk, concreteness, core, corpus, fabric, force, hunk, individual, item, mass, material, matter, object, person, phenomenon, reality, something, staple, stuff, texture, thing |
| Main Entry: | substance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | essence, meaning |
Synonyms: |
ABCs, amount, basis, body, bottom, bottom line, brass tacks, burden, center, core, corpus, crux, drift, effect, essentiality, focus, general meaning, gist, gravamen, guts*, heart, import, innards, kernel, marrow, mass, matter, meat*, name of the game, nitty-gritty, nub, nuts and bolts, pith, point, purport, quintessence, sense, significance, soul, staple, strength, stuff, subject, sum total, tenor, theme, thrust, upshot, virtuality, way of it |
| Main Entry: | substance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wealth |
Synonyms: |
affluence, assets, estate, fortune, means, property, resources, riches, worth |
Antonyms: |
poverty |
| Main Entry: | actuality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that truly exists, is real |
Synonyms: |
achievement, actualization, attainment, brass tacks, fact, materiality, materialization, real world, reality, straight stuff, substance, substantiality, truth, what it is |
| Main Entry: | amount |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | whole effect |
Synonyms: |
body, burden, core, full value, import, matter, purport, result, sense, significance, substance, thrust, upshot, value |
| Notes: | use 'amount' with things that cannot be counted but 'number' with things that can be counted number is regularly used with count nouns, while amount is mainly used with mass nouns: number of mistakes, amount of money |
| Main Entry: | article |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | item, object |
Synonyms: |
commodity, dojigger, gizmo, piece, substance, thing, thingamabob, thingamajig, unit |
| Main Entry: | being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | essential nature |
Synonyms: |
character, entity, essence, essentia, essentiality, individuality, marrow, personality, quintessence, self, soul, spirit, substance, texture |
| Main Entry: | body |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bulk; central portion |
Synonyms: |
assembly, basis, bed, box, chassis, core, corpus, crux, essence, frame, fuselage, gist, gravamen, groundwork, hull, main part, majority, mass, material, matter, pith, skeleton, staple, substance, substructure, sum, tenor, total, trunk, whole |
Antonyms: |
nothing, nothingness |
| Main Entry: | body |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | main part of written work |
Synonyms: |
argument, burden, core, discourse, dissertation, evidence, exposition, gist, heart, material, meat, pith, sense, substance, text, thesis, treatise, upshot |
| Main Entry: | bottom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | base, core |
Synonyms: |
basis, bottom line, cause, essence, essentiality, ground, heart, mainspring, marrow, origin, pith, principle, quintessence, root, soul, source, stuff, substance, virtuality |
Antonyms: |
exteriority, outside |