emptiness
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈɛmptɪnəs/
:
vacío
- The sudden ending of the project left a sense of emptiness among the team members.
- a sense of emptiness
- feelings of emptiness
- feel a emptiness
I felt the emptiness in my bones.
- I felt the emptiness in my bones.
- It meant that there was an internal feeling of emptiness and truth.
- This is kind of wound, this emptiness, this lack, right?
- And then I started feeling the sense of emptiness, like something's not right.
- When you still felt like a an emptiness in the soul.
- It's letting that emptiness still create more negativity.
- And I mean absolutely just rock just this emptiness in my stomach all the time.
- That emptiness is not touched by the heartbeat.
- It was truly just like a spiritual emptiness that I had.
- It never fills that emptiness that my sense of lack of worthiness creates.
- I don't know, I felt that void and that that emptiness.
- No, it was just in the trauma of dad's death, in the sort of emptiness I felt afterwards.
- Crowds and people and chaos and noise can distract from their emptiness.
- Yeah, which some people do value emotional emptiness, but you know, it's OK to live that way.
- The problem is that I was working so much to fulfill my emptiness.
- All you're doing is trying to fill your emptiness.
Examples
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I felt the emptiness in my bones.
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We are creating meaning out of emptiness.
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Have you tried to fill that emptiness or is there another solution?
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There is an emptiness that can only be filled by other people.
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It's impossible to explain that emptiness you get when you lose a colleague.
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Many of us have the same feelings, the same emptiness, the same loneliness.
Fiction book (1990) -
The explanation seemed to fill the emptiness that hung in her absence.
Fiction book (1991) -
It was truly just like a spiritual emptiness that I had.
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Yes, a profound sense of fatigue... ...feeling of emptiness followed.
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When I moved back home, that's when I could start filling in that emptiness.
Synonyms
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
30
8.3
The state of having no value, result, or importance
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7.0
A feeling or situation when something is useless because it cannot succeed
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5.3
The state of having no real value or purpose
4
7.6
A feeling that what you do has no purpose or value
3
6.3
A feeling that you have no value or importance
2
6.2
A state when something has no purpose or use
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7.1
An empty feeling inside a person or their words
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7.0
A state of having no meaning or purpose
1
7.0
A lack of clear purpose or direction
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8.7
The feeling of having no clear goal or direction
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9.2
A state of being empty of meaning and thought
A feeling of having no clear purpose or aim
A situation in which something has no value
A feeling of emptiness after something important ends
A situation when something does not exist
A state in which nothing exists
An empty space with nothing inside
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Emptiness comes from empty + -ness, and empty originally meant 'without anything', like a box that has nothing inside. A helpful way to remember the meaning about feelings is to imagine a hollow space inside you, which is why emptiness can mean a lack of value, purpose, or meaning.