Synonym: body, content, essence, gist, material, matter, stuff. Similar words: substantial, substantially, stance, instance, distance, resistance, assistance, for instance. Meaning: ['sʌbstəns] 
n. 1. that which has mass and occupies space 2. the stuff of which an object consists 3. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience 4. the idea that is intended 5. considerable capital (wealth or income) 6. what a communication that is about something is about.
n. 1. that which has mass and occupies space 2. the stuff of which an object consists 3. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience 4. the idea that is intended 5. considerable capital (wealth or income) 6. what a communication that is about something is about. 
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121. So crystallize a substance once: there will soon be microscopic traces of it everywhere about your laboratory.
122. The sensing element of a scintillation counter is a fluor, a substance capable of converting radiation energy to light energy.
123. Australian researchers have discovered a substance in coffee that acts like morphine.
124. Take the spotlight off the superficial, and perhaps the substance will have a chance to shine through.
125. Respondents gave examples of situations where this would not reflect the substance of the arrangement between the borrower and the lender.
126. Mysterious indigo with its connotations of protection was a substance and colour full of symbolism in the distant places of Arabia.
127. The combination of smoother style and slight changes of substance has allowed Britain to build different alliances on different topics.
128. This radical break with tradition had far-reaching effects on the tone and substance of the poetry.
129. The robot was working within the substance of the hydra and with its apparent complicity.
130. Continued abstinence from the primary substance or process of addiction.
131. Dicey is important precisely because he expressed both the form and substance of normativism in a clear and simple manner.
132. Of particular interest are genes that reduce the amount of a substance called lignin, or that weaken lignin's chemical structure.
133. Released from those conditions, diamonds will revert within minutes to the more pedestrian substance graphite.
134. She wore sapphire earrings, and her ring was a diamond of irrefutable substance.
135. Therefore the choice is between leaving things as they are and adopting a new definition which is different in substance.
136. Although Mr McKinnell's style is more approachable than his predecessor's, close observers reckon his substance is just as strong.
137. What does this really mean, and is the current fashion for quality merely rhetorical gloss or does it have more substance?
138. The prosecution alleges that Allitt injected Kayley with air and possibly another substance.
139. Finally, the policy also aims to provide assistance to employees with other substance abuse problems.
140. Initially, therefore, it is necessary to concentrate on the primary substance or process of addiction because this may be life-threatening.
141. A detailed description of that period would be impossible, as nothing of any substance happened.
142. Stories of substance, new and old alike, are often conspicuously absent.
143. The substance will then diffuse from the posterior segment into the anterior one, giving concentrations as shown in Figure 14c.
144. Also, since this reaction does not use tritium, it does not require the manufacture or transportation of this dangerous substance.
145. The mad girl crouching in the corner with her frock up and the unforgivable substance coming from her mouth.
146. Without doubt the gutter press whirlwind contained no substance whatsoever.
147. A system of valves limits accidental releases of the substance.
148. Quite quickly the whole corridor filled to the brim with the substance of the hydra.
149. Their minds have never been sufficiently clear of the substance or process of addiction to be in any significant degree of recovery.
150. Both sides shall give real substance to the agreement on the creation and work of cultural centres and fully exploit them.
More similar words: substantial, substantially, stance, instance, distance, resistance, assistance, for instance, circumstance, in the distance, pittance, acceptance, of importance, obstacle, abstinence, stand, stand for, stand out, stand up, stand by, instant, distant, standard, cancer, cancel, constant, stand up for, stand up to, glance, dancer.