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Emptiness   /ˈɛmptinəs/  /ˈɛmtinəs/   Listen
noun
Emptiness  n.  
1.
The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.
2.
Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; as, the emptiness of earthly glory.
3.
Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind. "Eternal smiles his emptiness betray." "The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite."





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"Emptiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the sun, of course. The odds were infinitely against such a happening. It pounded past the sun, shrieking its news, and hurtled on out to the illimitable emptiness beyond. It was still squealing when it went ...
— A Matter of Importance • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... instil into the innocent youth, and fancies she sees in him again the Savior whom she had once laughed at. She tells him with heartrending truth her inextinguishable suffering, her eternal sorrow, her lamentation full of the laughter of derision, the whole wide emptiness of her misery, and implores him to be merciful, and let her weep for a single hour upon his pure bosom—for a single hour to be his. But the answer comes like the voice of an avenging God, ...
— Life of Wagner - Biographies of Musicians • Louis Nohl
... the door as they sallied forth into the bright sunlight, paused a moment to look after them admiringly, and then turned slowly back into the hotel, smiling softly to himself. He sauntered through the deserted vestibule, and its emptiness struck him as ...
— Affairs of State • Burton E. Stevenson
... it. The loneliness that had tired him so ever since his mother slipped away was no longer a sharp, never silent pain, a great emptiness, but rather a sweet sorrow that was ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds
... on one long leg in the door of his drug-store, oil on his fluffy brown hair. He was melancholy and downcast, plainly resentful in his bearing toward Morgan as the contriver of this business stagnation. He swept his hand around the emptiness of the town as Morgan drew near, giving voice ...
— Trail's End • George W. Ogden


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