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

In fact, everything assumed an air of unsubstantiality for me.

From My Life — Volume 2 by Wagner, Richard

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

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.