insubstantiality

insubstantiality
insubstantiality (n.) 1827, from INSUBSTANTIAL (Cf. insubstantial) + -ITY (Cf. -ity).

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  • Insubstantiality — In sub*stan ti*al i*ty, n. Unsubstantiality; unreality. [R.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • insubstantiality — index artifice, blank (emptiness), immateriality, impalpability, insignificance, nonentity Burton s Legal Thesaurus …   Law dictionary

  • insubstantiality — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of substance Nouns 1. (lacking substance) insubstantiality; nothingness, nihility; nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never a one; no such thing, none in the world; nothing …   English dictionary for students

  • insubstantiality — insubstantial ► ADJECTIVE 1) lacking strength and solidity. 2) imaginary. DERIVATIVES insubstantiality noun insubstantially adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • insubstantiality — noun see insubstantial …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • insubstantiality — See insubstantial. * * * …   Universalium

  • insubstantiality — noun The state or quality of being insubstantial …   Wiktionary

  • insubstantiality — Synonyms and related words: airiness, airy nothing, airy texture, attenuation, bodilessness, danger, delicacy, desultoriness, diaphanousness, dilutedness, dilution, ethereality, exiguity, exility, fineness, flimsiness, frailty, gauziness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • insubstantiality — n. condition of lacking substance; lack of firmness or solidity, flimsiness; quality of being insubstantial …   English contemporary dictionary

  • insubstantiality — in·substantiality …   English syllables

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