emptiness
nounattested in dialogue
- United States
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.
noun
- 1
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.
- 2
A void; a nothingness; something lacking existence.
- 3
A nonexistence; a lack of existence.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English emptynesse, from Old English ǣmtiġnes. By surface analysis, empty + -ness.
Forms
- plural
- emptinesses
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