Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The state or feeling of being empty; an emotion that combines hollowness, numbness, disconnection and a lack of meaning in life, resulting in existential boredom, ennui or depression.

    Leere, Leerheit

    пустота́pustotá

    порожне́чаporožnéča

  2. (countable, uncountable)A void; a nothingness; something lacking existence.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A nonexistence; a lack of existence.

More definitions
  • having an empty stomach
  • the state of containing nothing
  • the quality of being valueless or futile
  • an empty area or space

Examples

26 sentences
  1. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.

    Форма то є порожнеча, порожнеча то є форма.

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  2. Form is emptiness; emptiness is form.

    ruФорма есть пустота, пустота есть форма.

    deForm ist Leere, Leere ist Form.

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  3. Sami had that emptiness inside him.

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  4. The emptiness inside me is overwhelming.

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  5. In my brain reigns a yawning emptiness.

    ruВ моём мозгу царит зияющая пустота.

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Translations

7 languages
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Русский
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the state or feeling of being empty:
Deutsch
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the state or feeling of being empty:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English emptynesse, from Old English ǣmtiġnes. By surface analysis,

Inherited from Middle English emptynesse, from Old English ǣmtiġnes. By surface analysis, empty + -ness.

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Forms

plural: emptinesses
Singularemptiness
Pluralemptinesses

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

2 related words
Relatedempty

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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