unsubstantiality
Example Sentences
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As a young Christian Scientist, I spent an inordinate amount of time fussing over the nature of consciousness and the unsubstantiality of matter.
From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2022
The chill of Mrs. Fairfax’s warnings, and the damp of her doubts were upon me: something of unsubstantiality and uncertainty had beset my hopes.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Or shall it be said that any argument deduced from this is a transparent circle—that after all we simply come back to the unsubstantiality of the ipse dixit?
From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry
Reality is reduced to the unsubstantiality of a dream, and dreams are the only reality.
From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by MacDonald, Daniel J.
The vagueness of our statement does not imply its unsubstantiality.
From Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life by Reid, Elizabeth
