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

When the summons to the dining-room actually came, Martha felt such an unsubstantiality in the region of her knee-joints, that for a moment she almost believed the bones had turned into breadcrumbs.

From Martha By-the-Day by Lippmann, Julie Mathilde

There are bank-fools who take delight in the very unsubstantiality of their occupation; instead of treating their avocation with the seriousness one's life-work deserves, they look upon it as a game or a joke.

From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.

As it was, they were vague, shadowy, and unreal; and their very unsubstantiality maddened me the more.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James