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emptinesses

emptinesses is the plural of emptiness.

Meaning of emptiness

Noun

emptiness (countable and uncountable, plural emptinesses)

  1. 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.
  2. 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)
  3. A nonexistence; a lack of existence.

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Questions about emptinesses

What is emptinesses the plural of?
Emptinesses is the plural of emptiness.

Words near emptinesses in the dictionary

  1. empties the tank
  2. emptiest
  3. emptieth
  4. emptily
  5. emptiness
  6. emptinesses
  7. empting
  8. emptings
  9. emptins
  10. emptio venditio
  11. emption

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