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

Again, are men the factors of some dream, the dream-like unsubstantiality of which they comprehend at such eventful moments?

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

He looked around the long room, which had a dark, rich coloring from the backs of old books, and some dark red hangings, and even that had a curious appearance of unsubstantiality to him.

From The Debtor A Novel by Stevens, William Dodge

It was a prison-house of darkness and unsubstantiality; a land where all things were forgotten, and those who inhabited it were themselves forgotten of men.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)