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1—6. well-founded, -grounded; un-ideal, -imagined; not -potential &c. 2.

Adv. actually &c. adj.; in -fact, – point of fact, – reality; indeed; de –, ipso - facto.

fabulous, ideal &c. (imaginary) 515; supposititious &c. 514.

Adv. negatively, virtually, &c. adj.

3. Substantiality.—N. substantiality, hypostasis; person, thing, object, article; something, a being, an existence; creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum; matter &c. 316.

[Totality of existences], world &c. 318; plenum.

Adj. substan-tive, -tial; hypostatic; personal, bodily; tangible &c. (material) 316.

Adv. substantially &c. adj.; bodily, essentially.

4. 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) 32; all -talk, – moonshine, – stuff and nonsense.

thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe, faggot voter; nominis umbra, nonentity; flash in the pan, vox et præterea nihil.

shadow; phantom &c. (fallacy of vision) 443; dream &c. (imagination) 515; ignis fatuus &c. (luminary) 423; ‘such stuff as dreams are made of’; air, thin air; bubble &c. 353; ‘baseless fabric of a vision’; mockery.

hollowness, blank; void &c. (absence) 187.

inanity, fool’s paradise.

V. vanish, evaporate, fade, dissolve, melt away; disappear &c. 449.

Adj. unsubstantial; base-, ground-less; ungrounded; without –, having no- foundation.

visionary &c. (imaginary) 515; immaterial &c. 137; spectral &c. 980; dreamy; shadowy; ethereal, airy.

vacant, vacuous; empty &c. 187; eviscerated; blank, hollow; nominal; null; inane.

Phr. there’s nothing in it.

5. Intrinsicality.—N. intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion; subjectiveness; ego; essence; essentialness &c. adj.; essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul; important part &c. (importance) 642.

principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis, diathesis.

habit; temper, -ament; spirit, humour, grain.

endowment, capacity; capability &c. (power) 157.

moods, declensions, features, aspects; peculiarities &c. (speciality) 79; idiosyncrasy; idiocrasy &c. (tendency) 176; diagnostics.

V. be –, run- in the blood; be born so; be -intrinsic &c. adj.

Adj. derived from within, subjective; intrin-sic, -sical;

6. Extrinsicality.—N. extrinsicality, objectiveness, non ego; extraneousness &c. 57; accident.

Adj. derived from without; objective; extrin-sic, -sical; extraneous &c. (foreign) 57; modal, adventitious; a-, ad-scititious; incidental, accidental, non-essential.

implanted, ingrafted.

outward &c. (external) 220.

Adv. extrinsically &c. adj.

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