Substance

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·same·as Hypostasis, 2.

II. Substance ·noun Material possessions; estate; property; resources.

III. Substance ·vt To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.

IV. Substance ·noun The most important element in any existence; the characteristic and essential components of anything; the main part; essential import; purport.

V. Substance ·noun Body; matter; material of which a thing is made; hence, substantiality; solidity; firmness; as, the substance of which a garment is made; some textile fabrics have little substance.

VI. Substance ·noun That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, in distinction from that which is apparent; the abiding part of any existence, in distinction from any accident; that which constitutes anything what it is; real or existing essence.