substantiveness

noun

Definition of substantivenessnext
as in value

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for substantiveness
  1. value
  2. substance
  3. worth
  4. importance
  5. prominence
  6. gravity
  7. significance
  8. seriousness
Noun
  • His position on Saturday, and his performance, will offer clarity about who the Eagles value in their depth along the offensive line — and where.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026
  • She is alleged to have touted that the company had a potential future value of more than $4 billion.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of value
Noun
  • While Teefey denied the substance-abuse allegations to TMZ this week, Chapin’s article includes accounts from company staffers describing Teefey’s executive style.
    — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The word drew on ideas from alchemy, where the agent was the active substance that spun gold from the mundane.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of substance
Noun
  • Reply and tag @BudweiserUSA with #LeadoffBud for a chance to win a season's worth of beer.
    — Jesús Cano, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The eye-popping gains of Nvidia, Micron, Alphabet and other AI stocks have helped inflate the net worths of millions of Americans by lifting the value of their retirement nest eggs, college savings plans and brokerage accounts.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of worth
Noun
  • White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said keeping gas prices low and ensuring Iran never gets a hold of a nuclear weapon are of equal importance to the president.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Getting losses down is of paramount importance to those clubs further down the pyramid, where Premier League riches are so far out of reach as to be a pipe dream.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of importance
Noun
  • Totality also brought glimpses of pinkish-red prominences—fountains of plasma arcing above the sun’s surface, dancing at the moon’s edge.
    — Claire Cameron & Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026
  • But the prominence accorded to Hiroshima has unintentionally obscured the event that helped force Japan’s surrender.
    — James M. Scott, Time, 10 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
Noun
  • Chris Levesque, TerraPower president and CEO, stressed the deal’s significance for the company.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Abdurrahman Amer, a festival official, noted the significance of the exhibition.
    — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 14 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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