emptiness
The English word “emptiness” has 3 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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.
- A void; a nothingness; something lacking existence.
- A nonexistence; a lack of existence.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English emptynesse, from Old English ǣmtiġnes. By surface analysis, empty + -ness.
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