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 William James
But he chose to argue from the unsubstantiality of separate colonial existence, and the natural inclination of prosperous colonists to make for England, the moment their fortunes had been made.
From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by J. L. (John Lyle) Morison
You do not get breakfast at the restaurant for the reason, before stated, of the breakfast's unsubstantiality.
From Venetian Life by William Dean Howells
