spiritual emptiness
Inner barren feeling
Spiritual emptiness is a felt absence of meaning, purpose, or connection to something larger than oneself.
It may accompany religious doubt, existential crisis, or periods of emotional numbness.
The term implies a void where faith, wonder, or transcendence once resided—or was expected to reside: After his father died, he struggled with a profound spiritual emptiness.
Sometimes distinguished from depression, though the two often overlap.
- voidWithout legal effect
- inner voidEmotional hollowness within
- hollowEmpty within
- desolateBleak and abandoned
- achePersistent dull discomfort
longing · meaningless · existential · existential crisis · numb · going through the motions · disconnected · soul · lost soul · darkness · dark night of the soul · barren · despair · lost · yearning · abyss · drift · purposeless
- spiritual afflictionsdemonic possession, apostasy, backsliding, damnation, defilement
- Medieval MysticismHildegard of Bingen, divine union, mystical union, Gelassenheit, Godhead
spiritual emptinessinner peace
Mental and emotional tranquility
divine connection · soulfulness · enlightenment · grace · blessedness
spiritual emptinessmeaningfulness
Quality of having purpose
life purpose · calling · vocation · groundedness · raison d'être
spiritual emptinessspiritual communion
Soul's connection to sacred
oneness · belonging · connectedness · fellowship · integration
spiritual, spirit, spirits, spirited, spiritually, spirituality, spiritualism, spiritualist, dispirit