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
The others stumble over misdeeds, and their own unsubstantiality, without the groundwork of right, till, like camera shadows thrown upon the mists of time, they melt into darkness.
From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Eddy, Mary Baker
A thing of witchcraft, a sort of fungus-growth out of the grave, an unsubstantiality altogether; although, certainly, she had weeded the grave with bodily fingers, at all events.
From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Reality is reduced to the unsubstantiality of a dream, and dreams are the only reality.
From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by MacDonald, Daniel J.
