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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Emptiness \Emp"ti*ness\, n. [From {Empty}.] 1. The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach. 2. Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory. 3. Want of knowledge; lack of sense vacuity of mind. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray. --Pope. The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite. --Tennyson. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: emptiness n 1: the state of containing nothing [ant: {fullness}] 2: having an empty stomach 3: an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space" [syn: {void}, {vacancy}] 4: the quality of being valueless or futile; "he rejected the vanities of the world" [syn: {vanity}]
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