solidity

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈlɪdɪti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

solidity (countable and uncountable, plural solidities)

1. The state or quality of being solid.
   • 1739, David Hume, “Book 1, part 4, section 4”, in Treatise of Human Nature:

     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.

2. Moral firmness; validity; truth; certainty.
3. (geometry) The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of enclosed space.

Synonyms

(state of being solid): (depending on the meaning of solid)

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

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “sense of being solid”):

• fluidity
• hollowness
• instability
• openness
• weakness

Translations

the state or quality of being solid

• Bulgarian: твърдо състояние (tvǎrdo sǎstojanie)
• Catalan: solidesa (ca) f, soliditat (ca) f
• French: solidité (fr) f
• German: Festigkeit (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: στερέωμα n (steréōma)

• Irish: diongbháilteacht f
• Latin: soliditās f
• Middle English: sadnesse
• Romanian: soliditate (ro) f
• Spanish: solidez (es) f