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

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)

Sometimes it seemed to lift and dissolve into unsubstantiality, only to come back more baleful than before.

From A Waif of the Mountains by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

I have no consciousness of what happened after this feeling of unsubstantiality came upon me.”

From Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by Mason, R. Osgood