Showing results for insubstantiality. Search instead for insubstantialities.

insubstantiality

NOUN

infirmity

Synonyms

STRONG

affliction ailment confinement debilitation debility decay decrepitude defect deficiency delicacy disease disorder failing fault feebleness flimsiness flu fragility frailness frailty imperfection indisposition malady malaise puniness shortcoming unhealthiness unsoundness unwellness vulnerability weakness

WEAK

ailing delicateness diseasedness fragileness ill health sickliness unhealth unsubstantiality weakliness

Antonyms

STRONG

ability advantage health improvement perfection soundness strength strong point

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Financial markets have “re-priced” assets to reflect both the insubstantiality of the many highflying business plans they were previously willing to fund and the indispensability of basic supplies, such as food and energy.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2022

She is referring equally to the story she is telling and the insubstantiality of life.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2019

What in the real world would be drudgery is transformed by the insubstantiality, the unreality, of the game into fun.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2018

But the serial collapse and the sheer insubstantiality of these projects brings to mind Thomas Macaulay’s jibe that an acre of Middlesex is worth more than a principality in Utopia.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 26, 2016

And it is not the relative insubstantiality of her clothing that causes Marco to stare, but the tattoo that snakes across her skin.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

insubstantiality

Example Sentences

Related Words