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n. - Lacking substance or reality; Lack of solid substance and strength.

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Usage examples (39)
  • Adjective : an insubstantial world of dreams. ,an insubstantial sum
  • Another popular recent way of delineating the Aristotelian intuition of the semantic "insubstantiality" of logical expressions appeals to the concept of "pure...
  • "insubstantiality", and may be somewhat unsatisfactory for that reason.
  • Perhaps collectively we can imagine him right into insubstantiality.
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