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Definition of insubstantiality :
Unsubstantiality; unreality.
Synonyms:
flimsiness, delicacy, infirmity, frailty, delicateness, decrepitude, strong, frailness, unsoundness, unsubstantiality, weakliness, weakness, feebleness, fragility, fragileness, debility, puniness
Usage examples:
- There was a splendid dining- room with waiters of such beauty and dignity, and so purple from clean shaving, that we scarcely dared face them, and there were luncheons and dinners of rich and delicate superabundance in the menu, but of an exquisite insipidity on the palate, and of a swiftly vanishing Barmecide insubstantiality, as if they were banquets from the Arabian Nights imagined under the rule of the Moors. - "Familiar Spanish Travels", W. D. Howells.