• Danish: indhold, substans
• Dutch: kern, essentie
• German: Substanz
• Greek: ουσία (usia)
• Hebrew:
• Norwegian: essens , kjerne
• Portuguese: substância
• Swedish: substans

• Danish: formue
• Finnish: vara
• German: Substanz
• Hungarian: vagyon
• Japanese: 本質, 実体
• Norwegian: formue
• Russian: вес (ves)
• Swedish: resurs

• ttbc Albanian: lëndë
• ttbc Arabic: (mádda)
• ttbc Azeri: maddə
• ttbc Bulgarian: вещество (vešestvo)
• ttbc Chinese: 物質, 物质 (wùzhí)
• ttbc Dutch: substantie
• ttbc Esperanto: substanco
• ttbc Estonian: aine
• ttbc Indonesian: bahan
• ttbc Interlingua: substantia
• ttbc Italian: sostanza
• ttbc Korean: 실체 (silche), 물질 (muljil)
• ttbc Lithuanian: turinys
• ttbc Middle English: substaunce
• ttbc Persian: (kholâseh)
• ttbc Polish: istota
• ttbc Romanian: substanţă
• ttbc Slovak: hmota
• ttbc Spanish: sustancia
• ttbc Turkish: madde
• ttbc Uyghur: (madda)
• ttbc Vietnamese: chất
• ttbc Welsh: sylwedd
• ttbc Yiddish: מאַטעריע (materye)

Related terms

• stand under
• subsist
• substantial
• substantive
• understand

French

Etymology

From substantia, substance or essence, noun form from present participle substans, from substare, exist, lit. stand under, from stare, stand

Pronunciation

Noun

fr-noun f

1. substance

The word originates from Latin substantia, literally meaning "standing under". The word was used to translate the Greek philosophical term ousia.

Substance may refer to:

• Substance theory, in philosophy, that element of an object without which it would not exist, or what exists only by itself (causa sui)
• Chemical substance, in chemistry, are material objects that can undergo various transformations related to artificial or natural phenomena
• Substance (artist)
• Substance (Joy Division album)
• Substance (New Order album)
• Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance, a tactical espionage video game

See also:

• matter

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