unsubstantialness

His practical knowledge of psychology is too limited to admit of his distinguishing between the solidity of waking experience and what we may call the unsubstantialness of the dream.

Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872

There was nothing very notable about it, except the rather unusual alternation of many long, low windows with many long, low oblongs of looking-glass, which gave a singular air of lightness and unsubstantialness to the place.

The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

There was nothing very notable about it, except the rather unusual alternation of many long, low windows with many long, low oblongs of looking-glass, which gave a singular air of lightness and unsubstantialness to the place.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

There was nothing very notable about it, except the rather unusual alternation of many long, low windows with many long, low oblongs of looking-glass, which gave a singular air of lightness and unsubstantialness to the place.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

I should rather say it would not unaptly express the thinness, the unsubstantialness of it, as of a rose leaf surface merely.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

There was nothing very notable about it, except the rather unusual alternation of many long, low windows with many long, low oblongs of looking-glass, which gave a singular air of lightness and unsubstantialness to the place.

The Innocence of Father Brown: The Sins of Prince Saradine Gilbert Keith 1911

There was nothing very notable about it, except the rather unusual alternation of many long, low windows with many long, low oblongs of looking-glass, which gave a singular air of lightness and unsubstantialness to the place.

The Innocence of Father Brown 1905

But, theories aside, the unsubstantialness of the comet's tail has been put to a conclusive test.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

And who but Mrs. Fairford would see, from his own precise angle, the fantastic improbability, the layers on layers of unsubstantialness, on which the seemingly solid scene before him rested?

The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899

He desires to set forth, by his image of a shadow, not only the transiency, but the unsubstantialness of life.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868