emptinesses
emptinesses is the plural of emptiness.
Meaning of emptiness
Noun
emptiness (countable and uncountable, plural emptinesses)
- The state or feeling of being empty; an emotion that combines hollowness, numbness, disconnection and a lack of meaning in life, resulting in existential boredom, ennui or depression.
- A void; a nothingness; something lacking existence.
- Few people without a training in science can realise the huge isolation of the solar system. The sun with its specks of planets, its dust of planetoids, and its impalpable comets, swims in a vacant immensity that almost defeats the imagination. Beyond the orbit of Neptune there is space, vacant so...1897, H. G. Wells, The Star (Science Fiction)
- A nonexistence; a lack of existence.
Questions about emptinesses
- What is emptinesses the plural of?
- Emptinesses is the plural of emptiness.
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