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

You do not get breakfast at the restaurant for the reason, before stated, of the breakfast's unsubstantiality.

From Venetian Life by Howells, William Dean

As it was, they were vague, shadowy, and unreal; and their very unsubstantiality maddened me the more.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles 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 Morison, J. L. (John Lyle)