[syn: solidity, solidness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Solidity \So*lid"i*ty\, n. [L. soliditas: cf. F. solidit['e].]
1. 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.
[1913 Webster]
That which hinders the approach of two bodies when
they are moving one toward another, I call solidity.
--Locke.
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2. 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.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Geom.) The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of
inclosed space.
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Syn: Firmness; solidness; hardness; density; compactness;
strength; soundness; validity; certainty.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
solidity
n 1: the consistency of a solid [syn: solidity, solidness]
[ant: porosity, porousness]
2: state of having the interior filled with matter [ant:
hollowness]
3: 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" [syn: solidity, solidness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
174 Moby Thesaurus words for "solidity":
abidingness, aplomb, authenticity, authoritativeness, authority,
balance, balanced personality, body, calculability, callosity,
callousness, changelessness, closeness, cogency, combination,
compactness, completeness, comprehensiveness, concreteness,
congestedness, congestion, consistence, consistency, constancy,
cool, credit standing, crowdedness, denseness, density,
dependability, durability, durableness, duration, durity,
endurance, entireness, entirety, equilibrium, exhaustiveness,
faithworthiness, fastness, firmness, fixedness, flintiness, force,
frozenness, fusion, gluiness, hardening, hardness,
hardness of heart, homeostasis, identity, immobility,
immobilization, immovability, immovableness, immutability,
impenetrability, impermeability, imperturbability, imporosity,
inclusiveness, incompressibility, individuality, indivisibility,
induration, inertia, inextricability, inflexibility, intactness,
integrality, integration, integrity, invariability, invariableness,
inveteracy, invincibility, inviolability, irreducibility,
irremovability, jammedness, justness, lastingness, long standing,
mass, materiality, nerve, obduracy, omnipresence, oneness,
organic unity, palpability, particularity, permanence, permanency,
perpetualness, persistence, persistency, pervasiveness,
ponderability, predictability, purity, quiescence,
relative density, reliability, resistance, restiveness, rigidity,
rootedness, sang-froid, secureness, security, selfsameness,
simplicity, singleness, singularity, solidarity, solidification,
solidness, solvency, soundness, specific gravity, spissitude,
stability, stable equilibrium, stable state, standing, stasis,
staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, steady nerves,
steady state, steeliness, stoniness, stoutness, strength,
sturdiness, substance, substantiality, substantialness,
tangibility, temper, thickness, thoroughness, torpor, totality,
toughness, trustworthiness, ubiquity, unchangeability,
unchangingness, undeflectability, undividedness, unerringness,
unification, uniformity, unindebtedness, uniqueness, unity,
universality, univocity, unmovability, unshakable nerves,
unshakableness, unyieldingness, validity, vis inertiae, viscidity,
viscosity, viscousness, weight, wholeness