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unsubstantiality

Roget-categorie 4

1. Words expressing abstract relations
1.1. Existence
›› 1.1.2. Being, in the concrete

#4. Unsubstantiality

zelfstandig naamwoord

unsubstantiality, insubstantialitynothingness, nihilityno degree, no part, no quantity, no thing.
nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobodynever a one, ne'er a one [Contr.]no such thing, none in the worldnothing whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earthnot a particle etc. (smallness) 32all talk, moonshine, stuff and nonsensematter of no importance, matter of no consequence.
thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe, faggot voternominis umbra [Lat.], nonentityflash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.].
shadowphantom etc. (fallacy of vision) 443dream etc. (imagination) 515ignis fatuus [Lat.] etc. (luminary) 423such stuff as dreams are made of" [Tempest]; air, thin air, vaporbubble etc. 353baseless fabric of a vision" [Tempest]; mockery.
hollowness, blankvoid etc. (absence) 187.
inanity, fool's paradise.

werkwoord

vanish, evaporate, fade, dissolve, melt awaydisappear etc. 449.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

unsubstantialbaseless, groundlessungroundedwithout foundation, having no foundation.
visionary etc. (imaginary) 515immaterial etc. 137spectral etc. 980dreamyshadowyethereal, airycloud built, cloud formedgossamery, illusory, insubstantial, unreal.
vacant, vacuousempty etc. 187evisceratedblank, hollownominalnullinane.

uitdrukking

there's nothing in it an ocean of dreams without a sound" [Shelley].

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