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

The vagueness of our statement does not imply its unsubstantiality.

From Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life by Reid, Elizabeth

A thing of witchcraft, a sort of fungus-growth out of the grave, an unsubstantiality altogether; although, certainly, she had weeded the grave with bodily fingers, at all events.

From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Hawthorne, Nathaniel