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.
Mutual synonyms
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.
Source: Literature / Dark Red Mind -
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.
Source: Everybody Must Get Stoned -
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.
Source: Artifact of Doom
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