Emptiness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being empty; the state of containing nothing, or nothing but air: as, the emptiness of a vessel.
  • noun. Lack of food in the stomach; a state of fasting.
  • noun. Void space; a vacuum.
  • noun. Want of solidity or substance.
  • noun. Unsatisfactoriness; insufficiency to satisfy the mind or heart; worthlessness.
  • noun. Want of understanding or knowledge; vacuity of mind; inanity.
  • noun. Synonyms Vanity, hollowness, nothingness.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum
  • noun. Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness.
  • noun. Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state or feeling of being empty
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. having an empty stomach
  • noun. an empty area or space
  • noun. the state of containing nothing
  • noun. the quality of being valueless or futile
  • Word Usage
    "In advocating what he calls emptiness, he is in effect saying that it is possible to achieve all the benefits of Daoist emptiness without trying to achieve that extreme form of emptiness."
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