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Definition of Substanceless
1. a. Having no substance; unsubstantial.
Definition of Substanceless
1. Adjective. Devoid of substance; insubstantial. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Substanceless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Substanceless
Literary usage of Substanceless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social Harmonism: Human Rights Under Functional Government by Holmes Whittier Merton (1914)
"... spaceless, placeless, sexless and substanceless I We suggest that if such
declaration were true, mentality could have no youth, maturity or old age; ..."
2. Social Harmonism: Human Rights Under Functional Government by Holmes Whittier Merton (1914)
"However, mind has received some recognition. The lawyers, if not the metaphysicians,
have endowed this substanceless mind ..."
3. Unity in Nature: An Analogy Between Music and Life by C. E. Stromeyer (1911)
"... and as length, breadth and depth is the space in which we live. This is as it
should be. The substanceless words carry the substanceless and ..."
4. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"... and destroying children, and never got a bid—at least never any but the
eighteen-dollar one he hired a notoriously substanceless bummer to make. ..."
5. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"... and destroying children, and never got a bid—at least never any but the
eighteen-dollar one he hired a notoriously substanceless bummer to make. ..."
6. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"state of arrested development must of necessity be pretty soft and flabby and
substanceless, and — er — by the way, I wonder where It comes from?" "How? ..."
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