hollowness
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈhɑloʊnəs/
:
vacío
- If you allow yourself even one moment to reflect, you acutely feel the hollowness of such a full, yet empty, existence.
Look at like the texture, the color, the hollowness.
- Look at like the texture, the color, the hollowness.
- You're using this as your primer because your main target area, the, the issue you're trying to target here is the hollowness and dark circles.
Examples
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From the sloshing sounds and the hollowness of the voices around him, he knew he was in a closed chamber of some kind.
Fiction book (1995) -
As she gazed at the empty field, the hollowness of her surroundings made her feel lonely.
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For several seconds, his whole body was hollow, and he could hear that terrible hollowness resonating through his ears.
Fiction book (1997) -
Randall knocked on the wall, and I heard a strange hollowness.
Fiction book (2002) -
The slow-climbing footsteps have a crisp hollowness that reminds me of autumn.
Fiction book (1990) -
The throbbing under my ribs isn't so much hurt as it is a new hollowness.
Fiction book (1994) -
I sensed the mansion's hollowness surrounding this fully furnished room.
Fiction book (1999) -
The intricate surface seems effortlessly achieved, yet combines bold diagonals and finely worked squares in such a way as to take the light in different ways and to emphasize the massive hollowness of the gourd.
Academic text (1996) -
The architect designed the building to emphasize the hollowness within, creating a sense of spaciousness.
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He could not ignore the hollowness in her voice as she spoke about her lost dreams.
Synonyms
182
6.5
A very empty space or feeling that is hard to fill
77
4.2
A space with no air or other matter
56
5.3
A small hollow in a surface, often on the skin
15
3.9
A hollow space in the ground or a solid object
14
3.6
A space or place that has nothing in it
14
3.8
A small empty space or dip in something
11
5.3
A low area of land that forms a hollow
9
4.3
A small hollow space set back into a wall or rock
4
4.3
A feeling of emptiness with no thoughts or emotion
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9.2
A state of being empty of meaning and thought
A feeling of emptiness after something important ends
A place or space with nothing in it and no activity
An empty space with nothing inside
Antonyms
How Hollow
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hollowness comes from hollow, which goes back to an old English root hol meaning 'hole', and the ending -ness turns it into a quality. So hollowness describes being 'empty' or having an open space inside.