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A space entirely devoid of matter or contents
“We try to fill that emptiness with belief, with amusement, with knowledge, with various forms of excitement.”
The state of being vacant or containing nothing
“The emptiness of the land stared us in the face. The farmhouses were few and far between and there were no snuggling villages.”
Void of substance, worth or meaning
“The basic problem Mrs. Dyne faces is a feeling of emptiness in her life, a feeling of not being needed, valued, and loved in her family.”
Ineffective, providing no real use
“He told his friends that he would do anything for his Katherine and the children, but everyone heard the emptiness in his words.”
Characterized by a lack of emotion or expressiveness
“In every one of the photographs, he'd detected an emptiness in her eyes, which had sparkled with life and mischief in the past.”
An appetite for food or nourishment
“It turned out that he was merely complaining of the emptiness of his stomach, and was hungering for his evening meal.”
The characteristic of being needy
A persistent pessimistic or skeptical attitude
A remote or uninhabited place
A large area of barren, typically uninhabited land
The state or condition of being loveless
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