emptinesses

States of vacancy

Emptinesses is the plural of emptiness, referring to multiple instances or varieties of vacancy or void.

The word appears in philosophical or literary contexts where different kinds of emptiness are distinguished: the emptinesses of modern life—spiritual, emotional, material.

Rare in everyday speech, where emptiness usually suffices even for multiple senses.

physical

voids

Emptinesses or nullifies

gaps · spaces · holes · blanks · absences · vacancies · shells · husks · barrenness · desolation

philosophical

nothingness

Complete absence of existence

lack · privation · nullity · vacuity · nonbeing · nihil · void · zero · blank · formlessness

emotional

hollowness

State of being empty inside

despair · aching · yearning · grief · loss · sorrow · melancholy · bleakness · isolation · disconnection

spiritual

voids

Emptinesses or nullifies

soullessness · existential · futility · absurdity · nothingness · mu · dissolution · transcendence · impermanence · formlessness

Opposites
physical capacity/volume

emptinessesplenitudes

States of total fullness

saturation · occupancies · completeness · stuffedness · crowdedness

emotional/existential state

emptinessesfulfillments

Achieved desires or goals

contentments · satisfactions · richnesses · completeness · purposefulness

abundance/quantity

emptinessesplenitudes

States of total fullness

abundances · profusions · surpluses · overflows · amplitudes

Phrases
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emptiness

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