Definition of "insubstantiality" [in•sub•stan•ti•al•i•ty]

• The state or quality of being insubstantial. (noun)

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• "In this sense, the female form, both the body and the word, is invariably somehow tied to "ugly feelings" because of the supposed 'insubstantiality' of them – which is a point about the Sianne Ngai book that Silliman overlooks."
• "Another popular recent way of delineating the Aristotelian intuition of the semantic "insubstantiality" of logical expressions appeals to the concept of "pure inferentiality"."
• "Others (Gómez-Torrente 2002) have proposed that there may be a set of necessary and sufficient conditions, if these are not much related to the idea of semantic "insubstantiality" and are instead pragmatic and suitably vague; for example, many expressions are excluded directly by the condition of wide applicability; and prepositions are presumably excluded by some such implicit condition as "a logical expression must be one whose study is useful for the resolution of significant problems and fallacies in reasoning"."