the void
Total absence everywhere
The void is absolute emptiness—a space containing nothing at all.
In physics, it describes regions without matter.
More commonly, it names an existential sense of meaninglessness or absence: She stared into the void after losing everything.
To scream into the void is to express yourself knowing no one will respond.
The void suggests darkness, isolation, and the unknown—what remains when everything familiar is stripped away.
- nothingnessComplete absence of existence
- nonbeingAbsence of existence
- abyssImmeasurably profound depth
- emptinessAbsence of substance
- black holeCollapsed star's remnant
event horizon · vacuum · absolute zero · oblivion · nihilism · entropy · boundless · dark night of the soul · dread · infinity · detachment · lacuna · absurdity · singularity · transcendence · loneliness · moksha · hollowness
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo
- TaoismTao, Taoism, Daoism, Laozi, Lao Tzu
- existential dreadexistential dread, existential angst, existential anxiety, existential crisis, dread
- parallel worldsparallel worlds, alternate universe, alternate reality, parallel dimension, alternate world
- mysteriesmystery, enigma, enigmas, puzzle, riddle
- philosophyethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, epistemology
the voidmeaning
What something signifies
purpose · fulfillment · wholeness · significance · connection
the voidcreation
Making something exist
the universe · the heavens · matter · physical reality · celestial bodies
avoid, void, avoided, avoidance, avoiding, unavoidable, voided, devoid, voids