existential void
Life's hollow center
The existential void is a profound sense of emptiness or meaninglessness, the feeling that life lacks inherent purpose.
The term draws from existentialist philosophy, which holds that humans must create their own meaning in an indifferent universe.
After his divorce, he found himself staring into an existential void.
The phrase often describes a deep spiritual or psychological hollowness that material comforts cannot fill.
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- nothingnessComplete absence of existence
- abyssImmeasurably profound depth
- black holeCollapsed star's remnant
- despairTotal absence of hope
dark night of the soul · meaninglessness · meaning of life · hollow · darkness · nihilism · cosmic indifference · dread · absence · loneliness · chasm · vacuum · alienation · ennui · isolation · bleakness · oblivion · vertigo
existential voidpurpose
Reason something exists
raison d'être · meaningfulness · fulfillment · calling · vocation
existential voiddivine presence
Felt nearness of deity
transcendence · spiritual fulfillment · grace · enlightenment · mystical union
existential voidwholeness
Complete, undivided state
plenitude · contentment · vitality · flourishing · joie de vivre
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