Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Matter in General

Materiality

Nouns
  • materiality, materialness
  • corporeity, corporality
  • substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum
  • physical condition. matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma [Biol.], material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum
  • frame. object, article, thing, something
  • still life
  • stocks and stones
  • materials etc. Materials. [Science of matter] physics
  • somatology, somatics
  • natural philosophy, experimental philosophy
  • physicism
  • physical science, materialism
  • materialist
  • physicist
  • somatism, somatist.
Adjectives
  • material, bodily
  • corporeal, corporal
  • physical
  • somatic, somatoscopic
  • sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial. objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual, materialistic.

Immateriality

Nouns
  • immateriality, immaterialness
  • incorporeity, spirituality
  • inextension
  • astral plane. personality
  • I, myself, me
  • ego, spirit etc. (soul) Intellect
  • astral body
  • immaterialism
  • spiritualism, spiritualist.
Verbs
  • disembody, spiritualize.
Adjectives
  • immaterial, immateriate
  • incorporeal, incorporal
  • incorporate, unfleshly
  • supersensible
  • asomatous, unextended
  • unembodied, disembodied
  • extramundane, unearthly
  • pneumatoscopic
  • spiritual etc. (psychical) Intellect. personal, subjective, nonobjective.

World

Nouns
  • world, creation, nature, universe
  • earth, globe, wide world
  • cosmos
  • kosmos
  • terraqueous globe, sphere
  • macrocosm, megacosm
  • music of the spheres. heavens, sky, welkin, empyrean
  • starry cope, starry heaven, starry host
  • firmament
  • Midgard
  • supersensible regions
  • varuna
  • vault of heaven, canopy of heaven
  • celestial spaces. heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids
  • nebulae
  • galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus
  • photosphere, chromosphere
  • solar system
  • planet, planetoid
  • comet
  • satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen
  • aerolite, meteor
  • planetary ring
  • falling star, shooting star
  • meteorite, uranolite. constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades. colures, equator, ecliptic, orbit. [Science of heavenly bodies] astronomy
  • uranography, uranology
  • cosmology, cosmography, cosmogony
  • eidouranion, orrery
  • geodesy etc. (measurement) Measurement
  • star gazing, star gazer
  • astronomer
  • observatory
  • planetarium.
Adjectives
  • cosmic, cosmical
  • mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious, terraqueous, terrene, terreous, telluric, earthly, geotic, under the sun
  • sublunary, subastral. solar, heliacal
  • lunar
  • celestial, heavenly, sphery
  • starry, stellar
  • sidereal, sideral
  • astral
  • nebular
  • uranic.
Adverbs
  • in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the sun.
Phrases
  • earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God" [Hageman]
  • green calm below, blue quietness above" [Whittier]
  • hanging in a golden chain this pendant hanging in a golden chain this pendant World" [Paradise Lost]
  • silently as a dream the fabric rose" [Cowper]
  • some touch of nature's genial glow" [Scott]
  • this majestical roof fretted with golden fire" [Hamlet]
  • through knowledge we behold the World's through knowledge we behold the World's creation" [Spenser].

Gravity

Nouns
  • gravity, gravitation
  • weight
  • heaviness etc. adj.
  • specific gravity
  • pondorosity, pressure, load
  • burden, burthen
  • ballast, counterpoise
  • lump of, mass of, weight of. lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion. weighing, ponderation, trutination
  • weights
  • avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight
  • grain, scruple, drachma, ounce, pound, lb, arroba, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod. [metric weights] gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram
  • nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram. [Weighing Instrument] balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam, weighbridge
  • spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance
  • postal scale, baby scale. [Science of gravity] statics.
Verbs
  • be heavy etc. adj.
  • gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load. [Measure the weight of] weigh, poise.
Adjectives
  • weighty
  • weighing etc. v.
  • heavy as lead
  • ponderous, ponderable
  • lumpish, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome
  • cumbrous, unwieldy, massive. incumbent, superincumbent.

Levity

Nouns
  • levity
  • lightness etc. adj.
  • imponderability, buoyancy, volatility. feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, balloon
  • float, buoy
  • ether, air. leaven, ferment, barm, yeast. lighter-than-air balloon, helium balloon, hydrogen balloon, hot air balloon. convection, thermal draft, thermal.
Verbs
  • be light etc. adj.
  • float, rise, swim, be buoyed up. render light etc. adj.
  • lighten, leaven.
Adjectives
  • light, subtile, airy
  • imponderous, imponderable
  • astatic, weightless, ethereal, sublimated
  • gossamery
  • suberose, suberous
  • uncompressed, volatile
  • buoyant, floating etc. v.
  • portable. light as a feather, light as a thistle, light as air
  • lighter than air
  • rise like a balloon, float like a balloon