unsubstantiality


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un·sub·stan·tial

 (ŭn′səb-stăn′shəl)
adj.
1. Lacking material substance; insubstantial.
2. Lacking firmness or strength; flimsy.
3. Lacking basis in fact.
un′sub·stan′ti·al′i·ty (-shē-ăl′ĭ-tē) n.
un′sub·stan′tial·ly adv.
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unsubstantiality

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The condition of being infirm or physically weak:
debility, decrepitude, delicacy, delicateness, feebleness, flimsiness, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, infirmity, insubstantiality, puniness, unsoundness, weakliness, weakness.
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Fairfax's warnings, and the damp of her doubts were upon me: something of unsubstantiality and uncertainty had beset my hopes.
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The fundamental thesis of deconstructivism is based upon unravelling the word (and language in general), upon stripping it from the conventions and ideologies that construct a certain meaning, simultaneously identifying the multitude of novel possible meanings, hidden behind the apparent, but subject, in their turn, to unsubstantiality, contradiction and relativity.
Postmodernist creative thinking, utopiawise
Instructed by literature, she apprehends the literary dimension, the "unsubstantiality," of the object of her love:
Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, and its legacy in the work of Vladimir Nabokov

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