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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or property of being solid: solidity.
  • noun Soundness; strength; truth; validity, as of arguments, reasons, principles, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun State or quality of being solid; firmness; compactness; solidity, as of material bodies.
  • noun Soundness; strength; truth; validity, as of arguments, reasons, principles, and the like.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state or quality of being solid.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of being substantial or having substance
  • noun the consistency of a solid
  • noun the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally
  • noun the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape

Etymologies

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From solid +‎ -ness

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