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solidity

UK/səˈlɪdɪti/US/səˈlɪdɪti/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,277 of 15,258leans written

Solidity is firmness and strength of structure. The solidity of the walls.

It is used of arguments and institutions as readily as of stone. Solidity is felt rather than measured, which is why the word does so much work.

Mashalti · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of solidity

  1. 1nounsolidityFirmness and strength of structure.C1

    “The solidity of the old bridge shamed the new one.”

solidity is a quality.

Where it comes from

From Latin soliditas, from solidus, firm, which also gives the soldier's pay called a solidus and so the word soldier.

  1. Latin

    soliditās

  2. Middle French

    solidité

  3. English, today

    solidity

From solid + ity, from Middle French solidité, from Latin soliditās.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

solidity in the wild

  • Stippling is the creation of a pattern simulating varying degrees of solidity or shading by using small dots.

    Stippling

  • Mass drawing refers to rendering the solidity of the subject by masses of tone or color, without emphasizing lines or edges.

    Mass drawing

  • Violet Frost writes in her book The Bonny Slope Story, "The logs were stacked to give the appearance of solidity, but they concealed a small room.

    Bonny Slope, Oregon

  • Thanks to the ideal weight, texture and colour, the stone lends grace and solidity to these rural homes.

    Kiranagi

  • Blade solidity is an important design parameter for the axial flow impeller and is defined as the ratio of blade chord length to spacing.

    Blade solidity

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • solid
  • solidify