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UK
/ˈɛmptɪnəs/
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[ US /ˈɛmptinəs, ˈɛmtinəs/ ]
[ US /ˈɛmptinəs, ˈɛmtinəs/ ]
NOUN
- having an empty stomach
- the state of containing nothing
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an empty area or space
the huge desert voids
without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum
the emptiness of outer space -
the quality of being valueless or futile
he rejected the vanities of the world
How To Use emptiness In A Sentence
- What if it was expressive of the redundancy of these men's thoughts, their emptiness and circularity?
- All her meanness and prosaicness was forgotten, all her imperfections and shortcomings; it was home, the one tangible thing in the glittering emptiness of the spheres. Gulliver of Mars
- To emphasize the cold, inhospitable emptiness of the West, O'Sullivan had to aim his lens elsewhere than at the roads and bivouacs just out of camera range. Western Development
- And events since the Report have exposed the emptiness of any such expectation.
- They'll see the yucky black emptiness inside, and they'll be repulsed and run away.
- Like a routine play nine hundred and ninety eight spindly human figures stepped forth onto the walls and filed towards the black emptiness arranged around the Core in what a chemist or mathematician might call tetrahedral bipyramidal form. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
- It is this eerie emptiness that Lucier's camera records.
- This larger emptiness went hand in hand with the insensitivities endured by the poor and working class residents who were removed from neighborhood after neighborhood.
- The fact that it is not an isolated art space, with its desolateness and emptiness despite its real existence, drew my interest," he said. Hoyt Hilsman: Ancient Istanbul Synagogue Reborn as Arts Center†
- Degenerate, decadence and emptiness loneliness loss.