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# emptiness

«emptiness» in Mova's school dictionary: **The state of having nothing or nobody inside** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (emptiness, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The state of having nothing or nobody inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emptiness/#m1)

2) A sad feeling that something is missing in your life, or that nothing matters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emptiness/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, the emptiness of a house or a desert sets a lonely mood; in talk about feelings, emptiness can come with grief or sadness, and it helps to talk to someone; in religion and philosophy, some traditions speak of emptiness as calm; phrases: «a feeling of emptiness», «the emptiness of space».

### examples

- The emptiness of the classroom after school felt strange. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emptiness/#x1)
- After her friend moved away, she felt a deep emptiness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emptiness/#x2)
- Astronauts look out at the emptiness of space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emptiness/#x3)
- The emptiness of the desert stretched for miles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emptiness/#x4)
- The house echoed with emptiness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emptiness/#x5)
- If you feel emptiness for a long time, tell a grown-up you trust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emptiness/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Built from empty + ness (y → i). Opposite: fullness. Feelings of emptiness are worth sharing with a trusted adult.

### In the corpora

- [If I have requited him that did evil unto me, or spoiled mine adversary unto emptiness;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.70/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «emptiness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emptiness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.