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

Still there remained an ineradicable unsubstantiality in Dante's point of view, when tested by the common facts of feeling.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

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.