Insubstantiality

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Insubstantiality \In`sub*stan`ti*al"i*ty\, n.
     Unsubstantiality; unreality. [R.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  insubstantiality
       n 1: lack of solid substance and strength
       2: lacking substance or reality [ant: {substantiality}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "insubstantiality":
     airiness, airy nothing, airy texture, attenuation, bodilessness,
     danger, delicacy, desultoriness, diaphanousness, dilutedness,
     dilution, ethereality, exiguity, exility, fineness, flimsiness,
     frailty, gauziness, gossameriness, gracility, hazard,
     immateriality, impalpability, imponderability, incorporeality,
     infirmity, insecurity, insolidity, instability, intangibility,
     laciness, lightness, mistiness, paperiness, peril, perilousness,
     precariousness, rareness, rarity, risk, riskiness, shakiness,
     shiftiness, shiftingness, slenderness, slightness, slimness,
     slipperiness, speculativeness, subtility, subtilty, subtlety,
     tenuity, tenuousness, thinness, ticklishness, treacherousness,
     treachery, unauthenticity, unauthoritativeness, unconcreteness,
     undependability, unfaithworthiness, unreality, unreliability,
     unsolidity, unsoundness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness,
     unsubstantiality, unsubstantialness, unsureness, untrustworthiness,
     vagueness, wateriness, weakness, wispiness