different between unsubstantial vs idealised

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From un- +? substantial.

unsubstantial (comparative more unsubstantial, superlative most unsubstantial)

(now rare) Insubstantial.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 89:
  “They are (said he) meer phantoms of ignorance and credulity, swelled up in the repetition, like those unsubstantial bubbles which the boys blow up in sopasuds with a tobacco pipe.”

idealised (comparative more idealised, superlative most idealised)

idealised

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