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emptiness

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1. emptiness - Noun

2. Emptiness - Proper noun

Meaning

The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.

Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.

Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The emptiness that remains in the soul when there is no God in it cannot be filled by the whole world. Nikolaj Velimirovic

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. Eric Hoffer

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life. Billie Joe Armstrong

As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt. John Desmond Bernal

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life. Merle Shain

If deeds are wanting, all words appear mere vanity and emptiness. Greek Proverb

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