emptiness

emptiness
n
1. voidness, vacuity, vacancy, va-cantness, hollowness; bareness, blankness, barrenness; depletion, exhaustion, inanition.
2. vacuum, void; interruption, hiatus, interim, interval, interlude.
3. destitution, lack, want, need, necessity, requirement; deficiency, scarcity, deprivation.
4. futility, ineffectiveness, uselessness; vanity, insignificance, meaninglessness, unimportance, worthlessness; unreality, delusion, falseness, insubstantiality; folly, sham, mockery.
5. inanity, fatuousness, foolishness, silliness; thoughtlessness, senselessness, brainlessness, dullness, stupidity, unintelligence.
6. verbosity, prolixity, wordiness; loquaciousness, loquacity, garrulity, volubility.

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