#3. Substantiality.—N. substantiality, hypostasis; person, being,
thing, object, article, item; something, a being, an existence;
creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum; matter
&c. 316; corporeity[obs3], element, essential nature, groundwork,
materiality, substantialness, vital part. [Totality of existences],
world &c. 318; plenum. Adj. substantive, substantial; hypostatic;
personal, bodily, tangible &c. (material) 316; corporeal. Adv.
substantially &c. adj.; bodily, essentially.
#4. Unsubstantiality.—N. unsubstantiality[obs3], insubstantiality;
nothingness, nihility[obs3]; no degree, no part, no quantity, no thing.
nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never a
one, ne'er a one[contr]; no such thing, none in the world; nothing
whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth; not a particle &c.
(smallness) 32; 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, faggot voter; nominis umbra[Lat], nonentity;
flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil[Lat]. shadow; phantom
&c.(fallacy of vision) 443; dream &c. (imagination) 515; ignis fatuus
&c. (luminary) 423[Lat]; "such stuff as dreams are made of" [Tempest];
air, thin air, vapor; bubble &c. 353; "baseless fabric of a vision"
[Tempest]; mockery. hollowness, blank; void &c. (absence) 187. inanity,
fool's paradise. V. vanish, evaporate, fade, dissolve, melt away;
disappear &c. 449. Adj. unsubstantial; baseless, groundless;
ungrounded; without foundation, having no foundation. visionary &c.
(imaginary) 515; immaterial &c. 137; spectral &c. 980; dreamy; shadowy;
ethereal, airy; cloud built, cloud formed; gossamery, illusory,
insubstantial, unreal. vacant, vacuous; empty &c. 187; eviscerated;
blank, hollow; nominal; null; inane. Phr. there's nothing in it; "an
ocean of dreams without a sound" [Shelley].