solidity

The state or quality of being solid.

Noun

  1. The state or quality of being solid.
    • 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...
  2. Moral firmness; validity; truth; certainty.
  3. The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of enclosed space.

Origin

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

Forms

solidities

Synonyms

compactness consistency density fullness hardness massiveness solidness soundness strength

Antonyms

fluidity hollowness instability openness weakness

Derived

insolidity semisolidity supersolidity unsolidity