figurative (literary or poetic). Something insubstantial or impermanent; a fleeting or transient moment. Also: a very small margin, a very short…
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释义 | the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > unsubstantiality or lack of substance > something lacking substance (40) breathc1275 figurative (literary or poetic). Something insubstantial or impermanent; a fleeting or transient moment. Also: a very small margin, a very short… winda1382 Applied to something empty, vain, trifling, or unsubstantial. gen. vapour1382 figurative. Used esp. (see sense 2a) to denote something unsubstantial or worthless. cloudc1384 As a type of the fleeting or unsubstantial. gossamer?a1400 transferred and figurative. Applied to something light and flimsy as gossamer. webc1400 figurative and in figurative contexts. Something likened to a cobweb, esp. in being a snare or means of entanglement, or in being delicate… comedown1583 More fully castle of comedown. Something which falls to ruin or is destined to fail. Cf. comedown, adj. 1. Obsolete. bubble1598 figurative. Anything fragile, insubstantial, empty, or worthless; a deceptive show. anatomy1605 fig. The withered lifeless form of anything. carcass1612 figurative. Anything from which the ‘life’, ‘soul’, or essence is gone; the lifeless shell or husk, the ‘corpse’, ‘skeleton’. intentional1658 An appearance or phenomenon which has no substantial or concrete existence. Obsolete. blank1678 An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all. ethereality1819 An ethereal thing, being, or idea. Usually in plural. breath bubble1835 a bubble produced by exhaling underwater; (also figurative) something of little value or importance, a trifle. Subcategories:— mere appearance or image of something (18) — a thing that is merely a vain show (3) — a thing existing in name only (5) |
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