substantiveness

Meanings

• Adjective

  The quality of being real, solid, or important.

• The state or quality of having substance or matter; solidity.

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Variants

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substantive , substantively , substantiveness , substantivenesses

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Etymology

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From Old French substance, from substaire 'to stand under' + -ance.

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Trivia

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1. Substantiveness is a key concept in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.

2. In chemistry, a substance is a material that has a definite composition and constant properties.

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Related Concepts

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1. Essence: The inherent nature or identifying qualities of a thing.

2. Existence: The state or fact of having being.

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Quotes

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1. "This was not a drive-by P.R. stunt, and I actually thought it might be," said Representative Zach Wamp, Republican of Tennessee. "It was a "substantive", in-depth discussion with our conference, and he's very effective."

   - Jackie Calmes & Carl Hulse,{it}New York Times{/it},27 Jan. 2009

2. The first "substantive" issue that the Supreme Court considered in its Brown opinion was whether, as originally understood, the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited racial segregation in public schooling. The justices concluded that the historical record was inconclusive.

   - Randall Kennedy,{it}New Republic{/it},5 & 12 July 2004

3. The common critique of art's pleasures and entertainments—that they are trivial, devoid of "substantive" value, and degrading of art's genuine worth—rests on ignoring this diversity by making two false assumptions: first, that there is basically one kind of aesthetic pleasure in art's entertainment and, secondly, that this pleasure is always a shallow and trivial one, which distracts us from interest in art's real meaning and truth.

   - Richard Shusterman,{it}Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures{/it},2000

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Culture

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Substantiveness is a fundamental concept in various philosophical and metaphysical traditions, where it is often discussed in relation to existence, reality, and essence.

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3. mnemonics
   

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