Hypertext Webster Gateway: "emptiness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Emptiness \Emp"ti*ness\, n. [From {Empty}.]
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; the
emptiness of earthly glory.
3. Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind.
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray. --Pope.
The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite.
--Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
emptiness
n 1: the state of containing nothing [ant: {fullness}]
2: having an empty stomach
3: an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the
emptiness of outer space" [syn: {void}, {vacancy}]
4: the quality of being valueless or futile; "he rejected the
vanities of the world" [syn: {vanity}]
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