Solidity
[sə'lɪdɪtɪ] or [sə'lɪdəti]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally; 'the solidity of the evidence worked in his favor'; 'the solidness of her faith gave her enduring hope'.
(noun.) the consistency of a solid.
(noun.) state of having the interior filled with matter.
Editor: Rhoda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being solid; density; consistency, -- opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness of matter, -- opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, -- opposed to weakness or instability; the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others; hardness; massiveness.
(n.) Moral firmness; soundness; strength; validity; truth; certainty; -- as opposed to weakness or fallaciousness; as, the solidity of arguments or reasoning; the solidity of principles, triuths, or opinions.
(n.) The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of inclosed space.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Hardness, firmness, solidness.[2]. Density, compactness.[3]. Strength, stability, soundness.[4]. Reality, truth, weight, validity, justice, gravity, importance.[5]. (Geom.) Volume, solid contents.
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Examples
- The first are those of the figure, bulk, motion and solidity of bodies. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And your painter's flesh is good--solidity, transparency, everything of that sort. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Unhappy man, said the Jewess; and art thou condemned to expose thy life for principles, of which thy sober judgment does not acknowledge the solidity? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It is impossible, therefore, that the idea of solidity can depend on either of them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Her masters had remarked that it was as delightful as it was uncommon to find so much talent united with so much solidity, and so on. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Let us, then, lend our attention to the examination of the idea of solidity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- These primary qualities are extension and solidity, with their different mixtures and modifications; figure, motion, gravity, and cohesion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It must resolve itself into the idea of extension or of solidity; and consequently the reality of motion depends upon that of these other qualities. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Try to judge the great beliefs that have swayed mankind by their inner logic or their empirical solidity and you stand forever, a dull pedant, apart from the interests of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Now I ask, what idea do we form of these bodies or objects, to which we suppose solidity to belong? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Hideous solidity was the characteristic of the Podsnap plate. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There are weight and solidity in a policeman's club, while a moral equivalent happens to be pale like the stuff of which dreams are made. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- First, Certain causes, such as gravity, solidity, a cubical figure, &c. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The idea of motion depends on that of extension, and the idea of extension on that of solidity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Our modern philosophy, therefore, leaves us no just nor satisfactory idea of solidity; nor consequently of matter. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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