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Definition of Insubstantiality
1. Noun. Lack of solid substance and strength.
2. Noun. Lacking substance or reality.
Specialized synonyms: Smoke
Derivative terms: Insubstantial
Antonyms: Substantiality
Definition of Insubstantiality
1. n. Unsubstantiality; unreality.
Definition of Insubstantiality
1. Noun. The state or quality of being insubstantial. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insubstantiality
Literary usage of Insubstantiality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Walking the Tightrope: Talks on Meditative Development with Pemasiri Thera by David Young (2005)
"We perceive the sound's impermanency, the sound's unsatisfactoriness, and the
sound's insubstantiality— anicca, dukkha, and anatta. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"... and while students of science are likely to find a certain insubstantiality
in his Critiquée, no one can read and understand them without securing a ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"The openness, the softness, the insubstantiality which the spectral color betrays
is, however, not of such a kind that one can speak of a clearly bulky mode ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1882)
"She wished she could have taken it back again; but glances have a power for
mischief quite out of proportion to their insubstantiality, and the present one ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"But ill-success on the stage, and closer acquaintance with this bohemian life of
shams and gilded misery, disillusions him, and reveals the insubstantiality ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1813)
"... not only as alike in point of insubstantiality but as being pressed upon us
with the same perversely ingenious perseverance and artifice. ..."
7. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1909)
"Quite so, but only because these eminent thinkers and dreamers failed to realize
the utter insubstantiality and evanescence of all mental modes, ..."
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