SUBSTANTIVENESS Synonyms: 74 Similar and Opposite Words

substantiveness

noun

Definition of substantiveness

as in value

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Noun

For now, though, soccer’s civil war appears to be heading toward an entrenched standoff of ideas and values.

— Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
South Africa's utility, Eskom, plans to develop a 1-gigawatt solar manufacturing facility to capture more value from its fast-expanding solar market and respond to changing electricity demand.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of value

Noun

For businesses facing a lawsuit, the existence of the suit is often more important than the substance of the suit itself.

— Alona Karpinska, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
The dramatic recipe involves equal parts literary ambition, risk-taking, and chutzpah, with a dash of substance abuse, cooked on the high heat of adolescent lust that brings Tony to Provincetown in pursuit of a schoolmate named Nancy (Emilia Jones).

— Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of substance

Noun

Whatever his role, Brown will have absolute importance to the 76ers this season.

— Tony Jones, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2026
Disruptions to oil and gas exports have highlighted just how reliant Gulf economies still are on fossil fuel revenues, and the importance of renewable energy to reduce this dependency.

— Dominic Dudley, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of importance

Noun

Their name appears throughout South Florida on charitable projects and nonprofit boards, reflecting decades of giving that accompanied the family’s growing prominence.

— Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026
James Baldwin rose to prominence as a novelist, essayist, and public intellectual at a time when psychoanalysis was all the rage.

— Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of prominence

Noun

For the science-fiction concepts underpinning that world, including gravity control, faster-than-light communication and cognitive materialization, Kamiyama worked with novelist Toh EnJoe, credited as SF setting supervisor, as an outside arbiter.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Aug. 2026
The goal was to verify Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which posited that gravity was not a pulling force but actually the warping of spacetime.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of gravity

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City staff are balancing the bar’s cultural and historical significance with concerns raised by the Los Angeles Unified School District and residents about parking, noise, traffic and public safety.

— Isaac Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
Jim Beam was tapping into that because there’s a cultural significance to football.

— Chris Perugini, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of significance

Noun

Karwowski came across his photo on social media and immediately recognized the seriousness of his condition, having previously cared for a paralyzed cat.

— Pat Mueller, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Stacy Lake, the Democratic candidate for county executive, declined to weigh in beyond acknowledging the seriousness of the indictment.

— Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of seriousness

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