CLASS I: Words Expressing ABSTRACT RELATIONS
SECTION I. EXISTENCE
2. Being, in the concrete
Substantiality– N. substantiality, hypostasis; person, thing, object, article; something, a being, an existence; creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum; matter &c.; physical nature. [Totality of existences], world &c.; plenum.
Unsubstantiality– N. un-, in-substantiality; nothingness; nihility. nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never -, ne’er-a one; no such thing, none in the world; nothing -whatever, -at all, -on earth; not a -particle &c. (smallness); all -talk, - moonshine, - stuff and nonsense, matter of no import, thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe; nominis umbra, nonentity, figurehead, lay figure; flash in the pan, vox et praetera nihil. shadow; phantasm, phantom &c. (fallacy of vision); dream &c. (imagination); ignis fatuus &c. (luminary); ‘such stuff as dreams are made on’; air, thin air; bubble &c.; ‘baseless fabric of a vision’; mockery; hollowness, blank; vacuity, void &c. (absence). inanity, fool’s paradise, fatuity, stupidity, emptiness of mind.
SECTION I. EXISTENCE
2. Being, in the concrete
Substantiality– N. substantiality, hypostasis; person, thing, object, article; something, a being, an existence; creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum; matter &c.; physical nature. [Totality of existences], world &c.; plenum.
Unsubstantiality– N. un-, in-substantiality; nothingness; nihility. nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never -, ne’er-a one; no such thing, none in the world; nothing -whatever, -at all, -on earth; not a -particle &c. (smallness); all -talk, - moonshine, - stuff and nonsense, matter of no import, thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe; nominis umbra, nonentity, figurehead, lay figure; flash in the pan, vox et praetera nihil. shadow; phantasm, phantom &c. (fallacy of vision); dream &c. (imagination); ignis fatuus &c. (luminary); ‘such stuff as dreams are made on’; air, thin air; bubble &c.; ‘baseless fabric of a vision’; mockery; hollowness, blank; vacuity, void &c. (absence). inanity, fool’s paradise, fatuity, stupidity, emptiness of mind.
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