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
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 John Addington Symonds
But somehow the sword might pierce them through and through, and show by all manner of arguments their unsubstantiality, but there they were still thronging about the philosopher and refusing to be gone.
From A Short History of Greek Philosophy by John Marshall
Sometimes it seemed to lift and dissolve into unsubstantiality, only to come back more baleful than before.
From A Waif of the Mountains by Edward Sylvester Ellis
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