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
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.
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)
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
