emptinessnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈemp.ti.nəs/us/ˈemp.ti.nəs/emptiness noun [ U ] (EMPTY SPACE)
empty space:
He gazed out over the emptiness of the desert.
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Empty
- bare
- barren
- blank
- clear
- dead
- deserted
- desolate
- desolation
- empty
- flat
- hollow
- lifeless
- nothingness
- unfurnished
- uninhabited
- unoccupied
- vacant
- vacuum
- void
emptiness noun [ U ] (NOT SINCERE)
the fact of not being sincere or having no real meaning:
the emptiness of these political gestures
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Affected & insincere
- affectation
- affected
- artificial
- artsy-fartsy
- arty-farty
- cheesy
- forced
- glib
- histrionic
- histrionics
- hokey
- meretricious
- pious
- precocious
- pretension
- pretentious
- pseud
- pseudo-
- slick
- theatrical
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emptiness noun [ U ] (SAD FEELING)
a sad feeling of having no emotion or purpose:
I was left with a horrible feeling of emptiness.
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Not showing or feeling emotions
- anodyne
- belie
- bite
- bite your lip idiom
- clinically
- detachment
- evenly
- expressionless
- glaze
- hard-bitten
- icy
- immune
- impassive
- po-faced
- poker-faced
- reserved
- sphinx-like
- stiff upper lip
- stoic
- stoicism
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