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substantiality.

Noun
FormalAcademic
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The quality of having considerable substance, weight or importance.

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  • substantiality of a contribution
  • substantiality of an interest

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The contribution’s substantiality came from its effect on the analysis, not its length.
The assessment considered the substantiality of the interest at stake.

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Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: requirements and constraints, institutional organization, formal assessment, system properties. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis, institutional studies. Commonness: uncommon.

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