emptiness
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3.6
- noun
- /ˈɛmptɪnəs/
:
vacío
- It's nothing but vast emptiness.
- the emptiness of interstellar space
Watching from within the emptiness of the heart space.
- Watching from within the emptiness of the heart space.
- Construction dust slow to replace emptiness, cranes overhead.
- Just complete and absolute emptiness is black.
- Inside every human cell as a perfect temple are boxes of emptiness that we call atoms.
- But even those pixels and those random dots and spots are made of emptiness.
- And you know, it's funny because in Detroit, for example, people always talk about the emptiness, the empty spaces.
- We will be surrounded by our own Milky Way Galaxy, and beyond that, there will be darkness, emptiness.
- And the idea is that there could be, the vacuum is not just emptiness with no properties, but it could have these sort of interesting properties.
- So as they open space, it's who's left, which is the emptiness that's so full.
- So most of an an an atom is in fact emptiness vacuum.
Examples
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Perhaps it is the emptiness of this vessel.
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A sleep cycle is indicated here by the low lighting and the near emptiness of the room.
Fiction book (1997) -
Watching from within the emptiness of the heart space.
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So I imagine that to have power, one must first have room for the power and emptiness to fill.
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Just complete and absolute emptiness is black.
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I liked the plainness of the ocean and the emptiness when I looked out over it.
Fiction book (1992) -
Even before I looked through the door, I sensed the emptiness of the room beyond.
Fiction book (1993) -
So a vast area of emptiness in the very heart of the city was anomalous and mysterious.
Academic text (2004) -
The work I do in Antarctica allows me to get out and experience some of the grandeur and vast emptiness of this amazing continent.
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The vast emptiness of the desert stretched as far as the eye could see.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
An empty area available for use
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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
103
1.7
An empty space between words or lines in writing
77
4.2
A space with no air or other matter
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7.2
A state with no people or things in it
14
3.8
A small empty space or dip in something
5
2.7
An empty space or area with nothing in it
4
4.3
A feeling of emptiness with no thoughts or emotion
3
1.6
An empty area for writing or filling in information
1
5.3
An empty space inside a thing, like a tree trunk or cheek
1
9.2
A state of being empty of meaning and thought
1
5.1
A plain, empty look with no decorations
A place or space with nothing in it and no activity
A feeling of emptiness after something important ends
An empty space with nothing inside
A state in which nothing exists
A feeling of being very lonely and empty after loss
Antonyms
How Empty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Emptiness comes from empty + -ness, where empty means 'without anything', so emptiness is simply the 'state of being empty', like an empty room or box. That's why emptiness is used for a space or thing that contains nothing.