Solidity

Definition: Solidity

Solidity

Noun

1. The consistency of a solid.

2. State of having the interior filled with matter.

Date "solidity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Domain	Definition
Energy	In reference to a wind energy conversion device, the ratio of rotor blade surface area to the frontal, swept area that the rotor passes through. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Solidity

Synonym: solidness (n). (additional references)

Antonyms: hollowness (n), porosity (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Completeness	Entirety; perfection; solidity, solidarity; unity; all; ne plus ultra, ideal, limit.
Density	Noun: density, solidity; solidness. Adjective: impenetrability, impermeability; incompressibility; imporosity; cohesion; constipation, consistence, spissitude.
Intelligence Wisdom	Wisdom, sapience, sense; good sense, common sense, horse sense, plain sense; rationality, reason; reasonableness; adj; judgment; solidity, depth, profundity, caliber; enlarged views; reach of thought, compass of thought; enlargement of mind.
Rarity	Noun: rarity, tenuity; absence of solidity; subtility; subtilty, subtlety; sponginess, compressibility.
Stability	Noun: stability; immutability; Adjective: unchangeability; Adjective: unchangeableness; constancy; stable equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stabiliment, stiffness, ankylosis, solidity, aplomb.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Solidity

English words defined with "solidity": An abstract idea ♦ Deadwood ♦ flimsy, Fluinity, Fluxive, fragile ♦ Hectostere ♦ Insolidity ♦ massive, monolithic, monumental ♦ rarefy ♦ Stayedness, Stereogram. (references)

Specialty definitions using "solidity": filling frame, filling timber, FREEZING-ROOM WORKER ♦ PASTE MIXER, POTATO-CHIP-PROCESSING SUPERVISOR ♦ SUPERVISOR, COREMAKER ♦ WHIPT SYLLABUB. (references)

Etymologies containing "solidity": Stayedness. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	My liveliness and your solidity would produce perfection.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The solidity of the mounting is important.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Foreign companies have an inherent advantage due to two factors, problems with local insurance companies in the past and the image of solidity enjoyed by foreign insurers. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Solidity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Solidity" is used about 144 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	144	26,339

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "solidity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ngurtësi (obduracy, rigidity, stiffness), fortësi (durability, fastness, firmness, hardness, strength, toughness). (various references)

Arabic		‏متانة (durability, enduringness, firmness, soundness, stoutness, strength, sturdiness, substantiality, toughness), ‏قوة (ability, agency, arm, authority, birr, capacity, clout, dint, energy, faculty, force, forcefulness, forcing, hardihood, intension, intensity, iron, leverage, might, operation, potency, power, severity, sinew, stamina, starch, stoutness, strength, vehemence, vigor, vigour, violence, virility, virtue), ‏سلامة (benignity, integrity, safety), ‏صلابة (callosity, hardihood, hardness, hards, inflexibility, iron, perseverance, reliability, resistance, rigidity, rigorism, singleness, soundness, stability, steadiness, stiffness, stoutness, strength, stubbornness, tenacity, toughmindness, toughness), ‏جمود (deadlock, immobility, inactivity, indolence, inertness, motionlessness, solid state, stagnancy, stagnation), ‏ثبات (constancy, determination, endurance, fastness, firmness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, immobility, immovability, invariability, perseverance, persistence, resolution, stability, steadiness, stillness), ‏شىء صلب, ‏شدة (adversity, exaltation, ferocity, harshness, hindrance, intensity, misery, need, rigor, strength, temperature, vehemence, violence, warmth). (various references)

Bulgarian		убедителност (force, forcefulness, persuasion, persuasiveness), якост (hardiness, hardness, resilience, resiliency, stoutness, sturdiness, tensility, toughness, vertebration, vigor, vigour), финансова сигурност, твърдо състояние, основателност (merits), набитост (sturdiness), монолитност, масивност (massiveness), материална сигурност, здравина (fastness, strength, sturdiness, vertebration, vigor, vigour), плътност (body, consistency, density, rotundity, rotundness, substance, thickness, volume, weight). (various references)

Chinese		扎实. (various references)

Czech		spolehlivost (dependability, reliability, steadiness, sureness, trustiness), solidnost (soundness, thoroughness), tuhost (consistency, rigidity, toughness), pevnost (fastness, firmness, fixedness, Fort, fortress, keep, post, stability, steadiness, strength, stronghold, strong-hold, validity), jednolitost. (various references)

Farsi		سفتی (Duress, Inflexibility, Rigidity, Tenacity, Tension), سختی (Accolade, Austerity, Buckram, Difficulty, Duration, Duress, Granite, Hardship, Implacability, Inflexibility, Privation, Resistance, Rigidity, Severity, Stress, Tenacity, Violence), جمود, استواری (Backbone, Constancy), استحکام (Backbone, Consistency, Granite, Grit, Rigidity, Stability, Strength, Substance). (various references)

Finnish		kiinteys (firmness), jähmeys (rigidity, stiffness). (various references)

French		solidité (soundness). (various references)

German		solidität (reasonableness, respectability, soberness, sobriety, solidness, soundness, thoroughness, virtue). (various references)

Greek		στερεότησ (solidarity, solidness, strength, sturdiness), στερεότητα (durability, fastness, solidarity, solidness, strength, sturdiness), παγιότησ, παγιότητα (firmness). (various references)

Hebrew		מוצקות (solidness), מקש�" (carved work, massiveness, one piece), יציבות (constancy, durability, fastness, fixity, stability, steadiness), אית� ות (firmness, strength), �"חס�" (compactness, pressure, squeezing), �'ושיות (compactness). (various references)

Hungarian		szilárdság (balance, constancy, fastness, firmness, fixity, immobility, rigidity, stability, steadiness, strength, sturdiness, substance), valódiság (actuality, fastness, genuineness), tömörség (brevity, compactness, conciseness, concision, consistence, consistency, density, massiveness, succinctness, terseness), megbízhatóság (dependability, plain dealing, reliability, soundness, staunchness, tenacity, trustfulness, trustiness), masszívság (massiveness), alaposság (accuracy, soundness, thoroughness). (various references)

Italian		solidit� (soundness, strength), consistenza (consistence, consistency, foundation, texture). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		硬度 (hardness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"うど (advanced, altitude, arable soil, barren or infertile soil, earth, hades, hardness, height, intensity of light, loess, wasteland, yellow ochre, yellow soil). (various references)

Korean		� 체성. (various references)

Manx		stooaltys (consolidation), gruntalaght, fondid (ableness, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, faculty, stability, sufficency, validity), claght (use, use service). (various references)

Pig Latin		oliditysay

Portuguese		solidez (consistence, consistency, fastness, hardiness, hardness, stability, substance, substantiality, validity), sensatez (prudence, wisdom), inteligência (adroitness, aptness, brains, cleverness, intellect, intelligence, mind, sagacity, sense, smartness, understanding, uptake, wit), firmeza (assurance, consistence, consistency, constancy, fastness, firmless, fixation, fixity, flatiron, hardness, immovability, iron, ironwork, persistence, poise, resolution, stability, standfast, substance, substantiality, tenacity), consistência (consistence, consistency). (various references)

Romanian		soliditate (compactness, fastness, firmness, hardness, massiness, reliability, soundness, stability, stiffness, strength), trãinicie (durability, firmness, lasting, stability, strength), temeinicie (firmness), tãrie (bitterness, depth, energy, fastness, firmness, force, hardness, height, might, resolution, sky, steadfastness, stoutness, strength, vigor, vigour), fermitate (backbone, consistence, consistency, decision, determination, firmness, fixedness, fixity, inflexibility, resoluteness, resolution, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, stiffness, stoutness, sturdiness), durabilitate (durability, durableness, lastingness, persistence), consistenţã (consistence, consistency, constancy, firmness, stability, steadiness). (various references)

Russian		твердость (constancy, firmness, grittiness, hardness, rigidity, solidness). (various references)

Scottish		t� bhachd (good effect, substantiality), bunntam. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		solidnost, čvrstoća (firmness, hardness, soundness, steadfastness, steadiness, temper). (various references)

Spanish		solidez (fastness, serviceableness). (various references)

Swedish		hållfasthet (strength), fasthet (consistence, consistency, fastness, firmness, fixedness, fixity, tenacity). (various references)

Turkish		sertlik (asperity, austerity, bitterness, curtness, fierceness, firmness, hardness, harshness, headiness, inclemency, intemperance, kick, pungency, rigidity, rigor, rigour, severity, sharpness, starch, sternness, stiffness, stoniness, strength, strictness, stringency, tartness, toughness, vehemence, wiriness), sağlamlık (durability, earthiness, fastness, firmness, hardness, integrity, invulnerability, responsibility, robustness, soundness, stability, stoutness, sturdiness, substance, substantiality, validity, wholeness), metanet (backbone, earthiness, fortitude, grit, resistance, resoluteness, steadfastness, steadiness, sturdiness), katılık (consistence, consistency, hardness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, sternness, stiffness, strictness), güvenilirlik (authenticity, credibility, faithfulness, reliability, responsibility, stability, trustworthiness), ekonomik saygınlık, dayanıklılık (durability, endurance, fastness, fortitude, grit, hardihood, hardiness, hardness, indestructibility, lastingness, reliability, resistance, staying power, strength, sturdiness, substantiality, toughness, wear). (various references)

Ukrainian		цільність, твердість (assurance, assuredness, decision, firmness, hardness, resoluteness, resolution), надійність (reliability, sureness, trustiness), міцність (fastness, firmness, hardness, lasting, permanency, serviceableness, soundness, stoutness, strength, substantiality, toughness), масивність (massiveness). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự vững chắc (cogency, stability, staunchness), sự rắn chắc (brawniness), sự kiên cố. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	constantia. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Solidity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Coliditz, solicity, solidi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "solidity" (pronounced suli"dutē)
7	-u l i" d u t ē	validity.
5	-i" d u t ē	acidity, fluidity, humidity, illiquidity, liquidity, lividity, morbidity, rapidity, rigidity, stupidity, superfluidity, timidity, turbidity.
4	-d u t ē	absurdity, commodity, heredity, nudity, oddity.
3	-u t ē	ability, abnormality, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-i-i-l-o-s-t-y"
	-1 letter: idylist, styloid.
	-2 letters: distil, idiots, solidi, stolid, tidily.
	-3 letters: diols, ditsy, doily, doits, dolts, idiot, idols, idyls, lidos, odist, odyls, silty, sloid, sloyd, soldi, solid, styli, toils.
	-4 letters: diol, dits, doit, dols, dolt, dost, dots, doty, idly, idol, idyl, lido, lids, list, lits, lost, loti, lots, odyl, oils, oily, olds, oldy, sild, silo, silt.
	Words containing the letters "d-i-i-l-o-s-t-y"
	+1 letter: stolidity.
	+2 letters: solidarity.
	+3 letters: dyslogistic, seditiously, spondylitis.
	+4 letters: disjointedly, disloyalties, fastidiously.
	+5 letters: disobediently, disposability, dissimilatory, duplicitously, expeditiously, industriously, solderability, spondylitises.
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