empty spaces
Gaps lacking content
Empty spaces are areas where nothing exists or where something is absent.
The phrase emphasizes vacancy—gaps in text, unused portions of a room, silences in conversation.
Fill in the empty spaces on the form.
In figurative use, empty spaces can suggest emotional voids or unfulfilled needs: She tried to fill the empty spaces in her life with work.
- gapsUnfilled spaces between
- vacuumsSpaces without matter
- dearthAcute shortage of something
- blanksUnfilled spaces on forms
- lacunaAbsent piece in sequence
void · hollow · depopulation · bare · vacancy · absence · room · unoccupied · interstitial · tabula rasa · expanses · chasm · ghost towns · intergalactic space · nullity · nothingness · desolate · margins
- solitude themesisolation, loneliness, solitude, silence, seclusion
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