Definition of "world-stuff" [world-stuff]

• The (ultimate) material of which the universe is composed. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The footprints of absence, formed by the subject's anxious self-circling (literally "wondering what you are"), ignore the substance around which the circles are made, the very world-stuff of which Dasein is only the ized reflection."
• "Yet since continuity prevails throughout, the atoms which constitute the world-stuff must be supposed to have"
• "The seeds, the germs of life that were expressed in such ways in the beginnings of life on this world, still exist in a greatly modified degree and the misunderstood phases of nature's ministry are the results of the out-working of these primitive elements still inhering in the world-stuff of which human bodies are made."