substantiation

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Substantiation is the backing of a claim with evidence. Without substantiation, offer substantiation, require substantiation.

In advertising law it is a duty rather than a courtesy, since a claim must be capable of substantiation before it is made rather than afterwards. It is the noun beside substantiate.

Definitions of substantiation

1nounsubstantiationThe backing of a claim with evidence.C2
“The journalist refused to print the rumour without substantiation from a second source.”

substantiation is a proving.

Where it comes from

Latin substantiatio comes from substantia, substance, from stare, to stand.

Latin
substantiātiō
English, today
substantiation

From Latin substantiātiō. by surface analysis, substantiate + -ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

substantiation in the wild

However, there are rumours of new material being recorded, but with no substantiation in the media.
The Mountaineers (band)
No scientific substantiation of that myth is known; the venom of Lycosa spiders is generally not harmful.
Lycosa
The substantiation rate for claims remains very low at approximately 1.13%.
Refugees in Hong Kong
At the time of its creation, ERIRAS' challenge was to develop the basic content and quantitative substantiation for the Energy Program of the USSR.
Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
In 2006 to 2008, 325 police officers were disciplined on substantiation of the complaints against them.
Complaints Against Police Office

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Related words

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