EMPTINESS


Meaning of EMPTINESS in English

noun

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■ VERB

feel

But all she felt was a strange emptiness .

He felt that the emptiness was trying to possess him.

He stiffened, bracing for the storm, but felt only an emptiness .

It was a sight which would have left some men feeling pity, but Urquhart felt a chilling emptiness .

I felt a huge emptiness in which I feared to be dissolved.

fill

Only the scenery and radio music fill the emptiness .

The yellowed parchment becomes a light-\#filled emptiness .

She had filled an emptiness in his life and he knew that he would be devastated if she left now.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A lot of people have a sort of emptiness in their lives.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

After that they made better progress and managed to slip undetected out into the emptiness .

He describes the suffering, emptiness , abandonment and loneliness that he is experiencing.

His parishioners applauded more out of charity than conviction, and the emptiness of the ovation embarrassed both speaker and audience alike.

Or perhaps it was that recollection, however poignant, was better than emptiness .

Some vast emptiness seemed to drive him on, a craving for warmth and reassurance.

The emptiness in which all things revolve is blue, she went on, in her half-waking state.

We left Lincoln tied to a water pipe in the concrete emptiness of the backyard.

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