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solidity en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /səˈlɪdɪti/

Etymology

From solid + -ity, from Middle French solidité, from Latin soliditās.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state or quality of being solid.
   • If colours, sounds, tastes, and smells be merely perceptions, nothing we can conceive is possest of a real, continu'd, and independent existence; not even motion, extension and solidity, which are the primary qualities chiefly insisted on. 1739, David Hume, “Book 1, part 4, section 4”, in Treatise of Human Nature:
2. (countable, uncountable) Moral firmness; validity; truth; certainty.
3. (countable, uncountable) The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of enclosed space.

Forms

Antonyms

hollowness · openness · fluidity · instability · weakness

Deriveds

supersolidity · semisolidity · unsolidity · insolidity

Synonyms

solidness · fullness · hardness · consistency · compactness · massiveness · soundness · strength · density

Translations (12)

ga diongbháilteacht (the state or quality of being solid) · ca soliditat (the state or quality of being solid) · enm sadnesse (the state or quality of being solid) · de Festigkeit (the state or quality of being solid) · fr solidité (the state or quality of being solid) · es solidez (the state or quality of being solid) · grc στερέωμα (the state or quality of being solid) · hi ठोसपन (the state or quality of being solid) · ca solidesa (the state or quality of being solid) · bg твърдо състояние (the state or quality of being solid) · ro soliditate (the state or quality of being solid) · la soliditās (the state or quality of being solid)