| 释义 |
emptinessemp‧ti‧ness /ˈemptinəs/ noun [uncountable]   - A lot of people have a sort of emptiness in their lives.
- After that they made better progress and managed to slip undetected out into the emptiness.
- He describes the suffering, emptiness, abandonment and loneliness that he is experiencing.
- His parishioners applauded more out of charity than conviction, and the emptiness of the ovation embarrassed both speaker and audience alike.
- Or perhaps it was that recollection, however poignant, was better than emptiness.
- Some vast emptiness seemed to drive him on, a craving for warmth and reassurance.
- The emptiness in which all things revolve is blue, she went on, in her half-waking state.
- We left Lincoln tied to a water pipe in the concrete emptiness of the backyard.
VERB► feel· But all she felt was a strange emptiness.· He felt that the emptiness was trying to possess him.· He stiffened, bracing for the storm, but felt only an emptiness.· It was a sight which would have left some men feeling pity, but Urquhart felt a chilling emptiness.· I felt a huge emptiness in which I feared to be dissolved. ► fill· Only the scenery and radio music fill the emptiness.· The yellowed parchment becomes a light-filled emptiness.· She had filled an emptiness in his life and he knew that he would be devastated if she left now. 1a feeling of great sadness and loneliness:  She felt an emptiness in her heart when he left.2when there is nothing or nobody in a placeemptiness of the silence and emptiness of the desert |