Object and Substance

Object

Object noun - Something material that can be perceived by the senses.
Usage example: I kept tripping over countless little objects scattered about the darkened room

Substance is a synonym for object in item topic. In some cases you can use "Substance" instead a noun "Object".

Substance

Substance noun - One that has a real and independent existence.
Usage example: the question of whether the soul is a substance entirely independent of the body

Object is a synonym for substance in thing topic. Sometimes you can use "Object" instead a noun "Substance", if it concerns topics such as entity, item.

How words are described

valuable valuable object valuable substance
physical physical object physical substance
special special object special substance
similar similar object similar substance
Other adjectives: common, specific, certain, solid, alien, single, powerful, actual, real, hard, dangerous, black, new, glowing, mundane, mysterious, unknown, titular, strange, different, unidentified, foreign, magical.

Both words in one sentence

  • Nigh Invulnerable: Bethany, since she can basically make bullets, fire, and any other physically harmful object or substance go straight through her.
  • Everybody Must Get Stoned Most or all of the cast is exposed to some kind of mood-altering substance or object and start behaving very strangely, usually by acting out normally-inhibited impulses.
  • Artifact of Doom A substance rather than an object, but otherwise, Dark Energon from Transformers Prime, which is said to be the blood of Unicron, fits the bill perfectly.
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