hollowness
State of being empty
Hollowness is the quality of being hollow—empty inside, like a hollowed-out log.
The word extends naturally to things that lack substance or sincerity: the hollowness of political promises, the hollowness of victory when it costs too much.
A voice can have hollowness, sounding echoey or vacant.
There was a hollowness in her laugh that made him uneasy.
Absence of matter
- voidWithout legal effect
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- barenessLack of covering
- barrennessInability to bear fruit
blankness · desolation · spaciousness · cavity · concavity · shell · husk · pit
Lack of significance
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- despairTotal absence of hope
- numbnessLoss of sensation
- achePersistent dull discomfort
loneliness · grief · loss · desolation · futility · ennui · melancholy · sorrow
Amplified oscillation at natural frequency
- reverberationProlonged reflected sound
- echoReflected sound wave
- ringingSustained resonant sound
- boomingExperiencing rapid growth
drumming · tapping · pinging · thudding · thinness · tinny · metallic · cavernous
Absence of truth
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- hypocrisyPretense of virtue
- pretenseDeceptive outward show
- superficialityAbsence of meaningful depth
shallowness · insincerity · phoniness · fakeness · deception · artifice · facade · duplicity
State of minimal width
- fragilityEase of breaking
- flimsinessLack of strength
- lightnessMinimal weight or gravity
- weightlessnessAbsence of apparent mass
delicacy · weakness · brittleness · porosity · permeability · skeletal · gaunt · sunken
vacuum
Absence of matter
barrenness · blankness · desolation · spaciousness · cavity · concavity · shell · husk · pit · crater
meaninglessness
Lack of significance
ache · loneliness · grief · loss · desolation · futility · ennui · melancholy · sorrow · disillusionment
resonance
Amplified oscillation at natural frequency
- reverberationProlonged reflected sound
- echoReflected sound wave
- ringingSustained resonant sound
booming · drumming · tapping · pinging · thudding · thinness · tinny · metallic · cavernous · sonorous
falseness
Absence of truth
superficiality · shallowness · insincerity · phoniness · fakeness · deception · artifice · facade · duplicity · dishonesty
thinness
State of minimal width
- fragilityEase of breaking
- flimsinessLack of strength
- lightnessMinimal weight or gravity
weightlessness · delicacy · weakness · brittleness · porosity · permeability · skeletal · gaunt · sunken · concave
- griefgrief, mourning, bereavement, sorrow, grieving
- desolationbleakness, barrenness, emptiness, wasteland, desolation
- propertiessize, shape, color, height, width
- emptinessemptiness, void, vacuum, nothingness, blank
- existential dreadexistential dread, existential angst, existential anxiety, existential crisis, dread
- timbretimbre, tone color, quality, resonance, overtones
hollownesssolidity
Firmness of structure
fullness · solidness · denseness · compactness · substantiality
hollownessfullness
State of being complete
fulfillment · wholeness · richness · meaningfulness · vitality
hollownesssincerity
Honest, unfeigned genuineness
genuineness · authenticity · honesty · heartfeltness · earnestness
hollow, hallowed, hollowed, hollowing, hallow, hollowly, unhallowed, hollower, hallowing