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solidity
noun
What it means
- countableuncountableThe state or quality of being solid.
The human figures in the foreground, who stand out from the canvas with lifelike truth and solidity.
1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 1351 more example
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
In a sentence
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
Where it comes from
- Latinsoliditās
- Middle Frenchsolidité
- Englishsolidity
From solid + -ity, from Middle French solidité, from Latin soliditās.
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