Emptiness
['em(p)tɪnɪs] or ['ɛmptɪnəs]
Definition
(noun.) having an empty stomach.
(noun.) the state of containing nothing.
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Definition
(n.) The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.
(n.) Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.
(n.) Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Vacuity, vacuum, void space.[2]. Destitution, lack of supplies, want of furniture.[3]. Unsatisfactoriness, vanity, hollowness.
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Examples
- The scorn of the public should be turned upon the emptiness of political thought, upon the fact that those men seem without even a conception of the nation's needs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There was something so strange and dreadful in the loneliness and emptiness of the house, that I was glad, on my side, to have a companion near me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- SUNDAY EVENING As the day wore on, the life-blood seemed to ebb away from Ursula, and within the emptiness a heavy despair gathered. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The late afternoon sun that still came over the brown shoulder of the mountain showed the bridge dark against the steep emptiness of the gorge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There was no refuge now from spiritual emptiness and discontent, and Dorothea had to bear her bad mood, as she would have borne a headache. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Space is, for the most part, emptiness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Well, really, now I think we must be moving, said Humphrey, observing the emptiness of the vessel. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Celia, whose mind had never been thought too powerful, saw the emptiness of other people's pretensions much more readily. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was almost full again, after its period of emptiness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She peeped in as she passed, and divined from the emptiness of his table, and the general appearance of things, that he was already gone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities, and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Cleverly do they extract the sweet juices of flowers to fill the emptiness of many-celled combs. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- So there was nothing to do but to bear the stress of his own emptiness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- At great intervals there are in this emptiness flaring centres of heat and light, the fixed stars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What if niceness carried to that supreme degree were only a negation, the curtain dropped before an emptiness? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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