Crossword clues for hollowness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hollowness \Hol"low*ness\, n.
State of being hollow.
--Bacon.Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery.
--South.
Wiktionary
n. the state or quality of being hollow
WordNet
n. the state of being hollow: having an empty space within [ant: solidity]
the property of having a sunken area
Usage examples of "hollowness".
From the sloshing sounds and the hollowness of the voices around him, he knew he was in a closed chamber of some kind.
Sun slid below the jagged horizon to the southwest, darkness accenting the hollowness of the People's cheeks and eyes.
The hollowness and vanity of the fellow, his petty meanness and stupidity, his puling sentimentality and credulity, his bombastic air of a cock on a dunghill, his anaesthesia to all whispers and summonings of the spirit, above all, his loathsome clumsiness in amour--all these things must revolt any woman above the lowest.
Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves.
Father Sun slid below the jagged horizon to the southwest, darkness accenting the hollowness of the People's cheeks and eyes.
It was a strange, cold, augural feeling that left a hollowness within her.
It was the violent winds from the vast accretion disc that had created this relative hollowness.
Then he lay on his side and felt the pistol holster between his legs and how it was really and all the hollownesses in him were twice as hollow and there was a new one from the dream.
And when he looked up into her face he saw the hollowness, the emptiness as vast as the intersystem space out of which Eldritch had emerged.
There was a roaring hollowness in my head, a tight sour ball at the bottom of my stomach.
It was become such a world as did not seem worth a man's while to live in: a world of vainness, of hollowness, of meanness, of nothing but illusions.