emptiness
State of barrenness
Emptiness is the state of containing nothing or being devoid of content.
A room's emptiness strikes you when the furniture is gone.
The word extends to emotional hollowness—the emptiness after a loss, the emptiness of a meaningless routine.
She felt a profound emptiness after her children left home.
Emptiness can also describe futility: the emptiness of his promises.
Without legal effect
- vacancyUnoccupied space or position
- nothingnessComplete absence of existence
- nonexistenceAbsence of being
- gapUnfilled space between
omission · invisibility · disappearance · erasure · withdrawal · removal · departure · missing
Without legal effect
- nothingnessComplete absence of existence
- muGreek alphabet's twelfth character
- nirvanaRelease from cyclical existence
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
impermanence · dissolution · formlessness · transcendence · liberation · release · non-attachment
Deficiency or absence
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- deficiencyLack of something needed
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
- dearthAcute shortage of something
paucity · insufficiency · want · inadequacy · privation · meagerness · sparseness · scantiness
Without legal effect
- expanseUnbroken area of space
- abyssImmeasurably profound depth
- chasmDeep, steep-sided gap
- gulfPartially enclosed sea
vacuum · space · cavern · hollow · cavity · vastness · openness · infinity
State of lacking companions
- isolationComplete separation from others
- solitudeState of being alone
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- hollownessState of being empty inside
numbness · despair · melancholy · ennui · alienation · disconnection · heartache · grief
Complete lack of motion
- quietLacking in sound
- hushAbsence of sound
- soundlessnessTotal absence of noise
- peaceFreedom from disturbance
tranquility · calm · serenity · quiescence · muteness · speechlessness · wordlessness · taciturnity
Severe and unadorned
- bareLacking any covering
- strippedHad coverings removed
- sparseThinly scattered or distributed
- unadornedLacking decoration or ornament
minimalist · unfurnished · uncluttered · blank · clean · austere · plain · simple
void
Without legal effect
- vacancyUnoccupied space or position
- nothingnessComplete absence of existence
- nonexistenceAbsence of being
gap · omission · invisibility · disappearance · erasure · withdrawal · removal · departure · missing · gone
void
Without legal effect
- nothingnessComplete absence of existence
- muGreek alphabet's twelfth character
- nirvanaRelease from cyclical existence
detachment · impermanence · dissolution · formlessness · transcendence · liberation · release · non-attachment
lack
Deficiency or absence
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- deficiencyLack of something needed
- shortageDeficient supply of necessities
dearth · paucity · insufficiency · want · inadequacy · privation · meagerness · sparseness · scantiness · poverty
void
Without legal effect
gulf · vacuum · space · cavern · hollow · cavity · vastness · openness · infinity · boundlessness
loneliness
State of lacking companions
- isolationComplete separation from others
- solitudeState of being alone
- desolationState of complete emptiness
hollowness · numbness · despair · melancholy · ennui · alienation · disconnection · heartache · grief · loss
stillness
Complete lack of motion
- quietLacking in sound
- hushAbsence of sound
- soundlessnessTotal absence of noise
peace · tranquility · calm · serenity · quiescence · muteness · speechlessness · wordlessness · taciturnity · reticence
stark
Severe and unadorned
unadorned · minimalist · unfurnished · uncluttered · blank · clean · austere · plain · simple · naked
- griefgrief, mourning, bereavement, sorrow, grieving
- deprivationlack, deprivation, need, want, shortage
- desolationbleakness, barrenness, wasteland, desolation, devastation
- quality statefreshness, ripeness, cleanliness, dirtiness, purity
- sufferingagony, anguish, misery, pain, torment
- emptinessvoid, vacuum, nothingness, blank, vacancy
emptinessfullness
State of being complete
fill · capacity · occupation · repleteness · repletion
emptinessfulfillment
State of achieved purpose
meaningfulness · contentment · satisfaction · wholeness · completeness
- inner emptiness
- spiritual emptinessLack of transcendent connection
- chronic emptinessEnduring internal void
empty, emptied, emptying, empties, emptier, emptiest, emptily, unemptied, pre-empt