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

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

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

The rapidity of movement, the vastness of the results, these things are before his eyes; but there insists on obtruding itself a sense of unsubstantiality.

From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry