solidity
noun/səˈlɪdɪti/
Etymology From solid + -ity, from Middle French solidité, from Latin soliditās.
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 chiefly insisted on.1739, David Hume, “Book 1, part 4, section 4”, in Treatise of Human Nature:
2
Moral firmness; validity; truth; certainty.
3
Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of enclosed space.
- Synonyms
- compactness, consistency, density, fullness, hardness, massiveness, solidness, soundness, strength
- Antonyms
- fluidity, hollowness, instability, openness, weakness
- Derived terms
- insolidity, semisolidity, supersolidity, unsolidity