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
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But neither unsubstantiality nor inferiority of the kind mentioned constitutes unreality in the sense in which the Mâyâ of Sa@nkara is unreal.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by George Thibaut
As it was, they were vague, shadowy, and unreal; and their very unsubstantiality maddened me the more.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
Reality is reduced to the unsubstantiality of a dream, and dreams are the only reality.
From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by Daniel J. MacDonald