#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].

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     #5.  Intrinsicality.—­ N. intrinsicality[obs3], inbeing[obs3],
inherence, inhesion[obs3]; subjectiveness; ego; egohood[obs3]; essence, noumenon; essentialness[obs3] &c. adj.; essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul; important part &c. (importance) 642.
     principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality,
crasis[obs3], diathesis[obs3].
     habit; temper, temperament; spirit, humor, grain; disposition.
     endowment, capacity; capability &c. (power) 157.
     moods, declensions, features, aspects; peculiarities &c. (speciality)
79; idiosyncrasy, oddity; idiocrasy &c. (tendency) 176[obs3]; diagnostics. 
     V. be in the blood, run in the blood; be born so; be intrinsic &c.
adj. 
     Adj. derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical[obs3];
fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous[obs3], haematobious[obs3], syngenic[obs3]; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite|; connate, running in the blood; ingenerate[obs3], ingenite|; indigenous; in the grain &c. n.; bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal &c. 221; to the manner born; virtual.
     characteristic &c. (special)