SUBSTANTIVENESS Synonyms: 74 Similar and Opposite Words

substantiveness

noun

Definition of substantiveness

as in value

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Noun

While productivity - how much economic value workers produce per hour - has continued to grow dramatically, wages at the bottom of the income ladder have not kept pace.

— Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 24 July 2026
If the bottom of the outside linebacker room is determined by special teams value, then Tyrus Wheat will have an opportunity to crack the initial roster.

— Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 July 2026

Definition of value

Noun

After the fatal shooting, an FBI agent said small bags consistent with drug packaging that contained a substance resembling methamphetamine could be seen in plain view inside the vehicle.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 25 July 2026
In the end, the document accelerated review for some drugs and pushed the government to reschedule psychedelic substances that perform well in large clinical trials, enough to persuade Rogan and Hubbard to show for the signing.

— Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026

Definition of substance

Noun

In the second incident, the singer allegedly broke around $1,500 worth of restaurant property, including hookahs, DJ equipment, and sofas at Mira restaurant and hookah lounge in Manhattan.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2026
Kevin Fleming | Corbis Documentary | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC's Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer.

— Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 23 July 2026

Definition of worth

Noun

The outgoing president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, Weijia Jiang, introduced Trump after discussing the importance of press freedom.

— Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
The sixth chapter emphasizes the importance of Torah study, and it was added later, likely by about the 9th century.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026

Definition of importance

Noun

Villa’s desire to address this position has grown in prominence over the summer, with Jadon Sancho’s loan ending, Evann Guessand and Leon Bailey available to leave and Villa having the money to spend from Rogers’ sale.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 22 July 2026
Sac State’s momentum included rising to FCS prominence in 2019 under coach Troy Taylor, who led the Hornets to three Big Sky Conference crowns in the program’s best stretch in program history before he was hired away by Stanford.

— Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of prominence

Noun

Petey Halpin almost tagged Jackson for a two-out homer, the ball instead succumbing to gravity near the warning track.

— Zack Meisel, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Specialized software grows from complexity, compliance, data gravity and the need to make expensive organizations more productive.

— George Wells, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

Definition of gravity

Noun

The existence of these precedents—many of which, not incidentally, involve imperial ambition or climate change—is taken as a credential of their seriousness.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
Her lawyers argue that the judge wrongly assessed the effect of the posts, underestimated the seriousness of the meanings conveyed and erred in accepting Wilson’s substantial-truth defense.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 July 2026

Definition of seriousness

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