unsubstantiality

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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)

Or shall it be said that any argument deduced from this is a transparent circle—that after all we simply come back to the unsubstantiality of the ipse dixit?

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry

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