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Answer for the clue "The quality of being substantial or having substance ", 14 letters:
substantiality

Word definitions for substantiality in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Substantiality \Sub*stan`ti*al"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being substantial; corporiety; materiality. The soul is a stranger to such gross substantiality. --Glanvill.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being substantial or having substance [syn: substantialness ] [ant: insubstantiality ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the state of being substantial 2 the extent to which something is substantial

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia

Usage examples of substantiality.

There cannot be a greater and less in the non-existent: as we predicate Substance of everything in sense, but predicate it also of the Intellectual order and more strictly there--since we hold that the greater and more sovereign substantiality belongs to the Real Beings and that Being is more marked in Substance, even sensible Substance, than in the other Kinds--so, finding unity to exhibit degree of more and less, differing in sense-things as well as in the Intellectual, we must similarly admit that Unity exists under all forms though still by reference, only, to that primal Unity.

A displacement of the assemblage point beyond the midline of the cocoon of man makes the entire world we know vanish from our view in one instant, as if it had been erased--for the stability, the substantiality, that seems to belong to our perceivable world is just the force of alignment.

In their native language they do not seem so fanciful, and here in the castle, confabulations take on substantiality.

A moment later and that figure followed him, emerging into substantiality and shifting from an octopal ape form to that of my brother Mandor, humanized, wearing black as when last I had seen him, though the garments were fresh and of a slightly different cut, his white hair less tousled.

He had returned from death and weightlessness - from incorporeity - to life and substantiality in a moment, but his pup's legs were already unused to it.