blankness
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4.3
- noun
- /ˈblæŋknəs/
:
vacío
- His expression was one of complete blankness, showing no emotion or reaction to the news.
You dissociate you, you can create essentially pockets of blankness that are that are protective and that's usually from from severe trauma anyway.
- You dissociate you, you can create essentially pockets of blankness that are that are protective and that's usually from from severe trauma anyway.
Examples
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For months, I had ridden them in either total blankness or total hostility.
Fiction book (1990) -
His sole defense seemed to be a certain blankness that did not encourage long conversations.
Fiction book (1993) -
The longer he waited for the blankness to lift, the worse it was.
Fiction book (1996) -
And this blankness yields, in the end, to an ordinary afternoon in New Jersey.
Academic text (2000) -
And then turning the handle and seeing the blankness, the emptiness in that space.
Fiction book (1994) -
There was no blankness or void, no precipice to step across with this idea.
Fiction book (2000) -
Her face changed rapidly as she tried to decide how to react, moving from blankness to outrage.
Fiction book (1990) -
Eden, the state of innocence, is a state of blankness, Miriam tells them.
Fiction book (1997) -
Because his body was slept out, he could not achieve the utter blankness he desired.
Fiction book (1999) -
An empty office, tall windows opening onto brain-gray blankness, walls sprayed with hacker tags.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
216
2.1
A lack of someone or something that should be there
182
6.5
A very empty space or feeling that is hard to fill
32
7.2
A state with no people or things in it
14
3.6
A space or place that has nothing in it
3
1.6
An empty area for writing or filling in information
1
9.2
A state of being empty of meaning and thought
A feeling of emptiness after something important ends
An empty space with nothing inside
A blank look that shows no clear thought or feeling
A situation when something does not exist
A state in which nothing exists
Antonyms
How Empty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word blankness comes from the old word blank, which originally meant 'white', like a clean sheet of paper. Because a white sheet had no writing or marks, blank came to mean 'empty', so blankness is the state of being empty or without thought.