| Main Entry: | unsubstantiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infirmity |
Synonyms: |
affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debilitation, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, delicateness, disease, diseasedness, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, flimsiness, flu, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, ill health, imperfection, indisposition, insubstantiality, malady, malaise, puniness, shortcoming, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwellness, vulnerability, weakliness, weakness* |
| Concept: | Unsubstantiality. |
| Category: | 2. BEING, IN THE CONCRETE |
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-nouns
unsubstantiality, insubstantiality; nothingness, nihility; no degree, no part, no quantity, no thing., nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never a one, ne'er a one; no such thing, none in the world; nothing whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth; not a particle (smallness); all talk, moonshine, stuff and nonsense; matter of no importance, matter of no consequence, thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe; nominis umbra, nonentity; flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil., shadow; phantom, (fallacy of vision) [more]; dream (imagination); ignis fatuus (luminary); " such stuff as dreams are made of " [Tempest]; air, thin air, vapor; bubble; " baseless fabric of a vision " [Tempest]; mockery., hollowness, blank; void (absence)., inanity, fool's paradise.
-verbs
vanish, evaporate, fade, dissolve, melt away; disappear.
-adjectives
unsubstantial; baseless, groundless; ungrounded; without foundation, having no foundation., visionary (imaginary); immaterial. [more]; spectral; dreamy; shadowy; ethereal, airy; cloud built, cloud formed; gossamery, illusory, insubstantial, unreal., vacant, vacuous; empty. [more]; eviscerated; blank, hollow; nominal; null; inane.
-phrases
there's nothing in it; "an ocean of dreams without a sound" [Shelley].
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Antonyms: |
substantiality |
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| Main Entry: | flimsiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakness |
Synonyms: |
delicacy, delicateness, feebleness, flaw, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, insubstantiality, shoddiness, shortcoming, unsoundness, unsubstantiality |
| Main Entry: | insubstantiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infirmity |
Synonyms: |
affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debilitation, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, delicateness, disease, diseasedness, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, flimsiness, flu, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, ill health, imperfection, indisposition, malady, malaise, puniness, shortcoming, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unsubstantiality, unwellness, vulnerability, weakliness, weakness* |
| Main Entry: | puniness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infirmity |
Synonyms: |
affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debilitation, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, delicateness, disease, diseasedness, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, flimsiness, flu, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, ill health, imperfection, indisposition, insubstantiality, malady, malaise, shortcoming, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unsubstantiality, unwellness, vulnerability, weakliness, weakness* |
| Main Entry: | unsoundness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infirmity |
Synonyms: |
affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debilitation, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, delicateness, disease, diseasedness, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, flimsiness, flu, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, ill health, imperfection, indisposition, insubstantiality, malady, malaise, puniness, shortcoming, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unsubstantiality, unwellness, vulnerability, weakliness, weakness* |
| Main Entry: | weakliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infirmity |
Synonyms: |
affliction, ailing, ailment, confinement, debilitation, debility, decay, decrepitude, defect, deficiency, delicacy, delicateness, disease, diseasedness, disorder, failing, fault, feebleness, flimsiness, flu, fragileness, fragility, frailness, frailty, ill health, imperfection, indisposition, insubstantiality, malady, malaise, puniness, shortcoming, sickliness, unhealth, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unsubstantiality, unwellness, vulnerability, weakness* |