Crossword clues for emptiness
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emptiness \Emp"ti*ness\, n. [From Empty.]
The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.
Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; as, the emptiness of earthly glory.
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Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind.
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray.
--Pope.The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite.
--Tennyson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from empty + -ness.
Wiktionary
n. The state or feeling of being empty
WordNet
n. the state of containing nothing [ant: fullness]
having an empty stomach
an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum" [syn: void, vacancy, vacuum]
the quality of being valueless or futile; "he rejected the vanities of the world" [syn: vanity]
Wikipedia
Emptiness is the state of being empty, i.e., not containing anything.
Hence, the term may refer metaphorically to several things:
- A blank information carrier, like an empty sheet of paper or an empty hard disk
- An empty data structure, such as an empty string
- In Buddhism, "emptiness" is called Śūnyatā
- In set theory, emptiness is symbolized by the empty set: a set that contains no elements
- In linguistics, emptiness is represented by the absent referent: a sign that has an empty, absent, non-existent, paradoxical, hypothetical, supernatural, or undefined referent
- Lack of matter, or vacuum
Emptiness or The Emptiness may also refer to:
- "Emptiness", a song by Jolin Tsai for the 1999 album 1019
- The Emptiness (album), the third album released by post-hardcore band Alesana
- Emptiness (Chinese constellation), a Chinese star constellation
Emptiness as a human condition is a sense of generalized boredom, social alienation and apathy. Feelings of emptiness often accompany dysthymia, depression, loneliness, anhedonia, despair, or other mental/emotional disorders, including schizoid personality disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, schizotypal personality disorder and borderline personality disorder. A sense of emptiness is also part of a natural process of grief, as resulting of separation, death of a loved one, or other significant changes. However, the particular meanings of “emptiness” vary with the particular context and the religious or cultural tradition in which it is used.
While Christianity and Western sociologists and psychologists view a state of emptiness as a negative, unwanted condition, in some Eastern philosophies such as Buddhist philosophy and Taoism, emptiness ( Śūnyatā) is a realized achievement.
The Emptiness mansion is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the northern mansions of the Black Tortoise.
Usage examples of "emptiness".
Because the evacuees are attuned to the forms, genres, and in fact the larger aesthetics of television, they experience a lack, a sense of emptiness.
Being on the outermost reaches of the galaxy - and hanging well underneath the galactic plane, where the last vestiges of stars and gas gave way to the emptiness beyond - did not necessarily mean that a place was inaccessible, providing it was close to an arteria portal.
All around there was nothing but a black, smothering emptiness darker and more forbidding than the blackest chasm of the Underdark.
Two worn bootheels they could see, standing on emptiness, and above that a man-sized bulk of gray dust so thick it looked like fur, joined to the ceiling and walls by lazy, dusty arcs of cobwebs that must be as thick as ropes.
She could sense the emptiness around her, the deserted cabins, the lack of distant bustle.
As the dawn broke full over the horizon, Caliban stood at the edge of where the map said there was only emptiness.
I was stationed in Paris and occasionally in London at that time, and fascinating though those capitals were to a young American happy to have escaped from the incredible smugness and emptiness of the Calvin Coolidge era, they paled a little when one came to Berlin and Munich.
But worse than all that was the feeling of emptiness, of disconnectedness, she had.
Had the ship been other than an engineless wreck, falling through a hundred and fifty million miles of emptiness into the flaming photosphere of a sun, everything would have seemed quite normal, including the errand Baird and Diane were upon, and the fact that they held hands self-consciously as they went about it.
Miraculously the fires had missed two or three Inns but around them was stark emptiness, ash and embers, up to the charred encircling fence and the moat beyond.
The dead streets and the ghoulies haunting the rad-blighted emptiness.
That feeling of emptiness and panic, the result of her interview with the Guatemalan general at the apartment house, vanished magically.
With the return of passion, the old emptiness reared alive within him as the ancient difference between Hades and the other immortals reawakened.
The hobbies plunged into one of the slits of emptiness and darkness closed upon us.
Emptiness, and not through a regressive dissolution of dialogical intersubjectivity into atomistic monological states and reductionistic mindless cognitive mechanism, the path the authors all too often stray into.