| 单词 | emptiness |
| 释义 | emptiness (emptinəs ) 1. uncountable noun A feeling of emptiness is an unhappy or frightening feeling that nothing is worthwhile, especially when you are very tired or have just experienced something upsetting. The result later in life may be feelings of emptiness and depression. 2. uncountable noun The emptiness of a place is the fact that there is nothing in it. ...the emptiness of the desert. [+ of] Synonyms: bareness, waste, desolation, destitution 3. singular noun An emptiness is a very large area of land, sea, or space that has nothing in it. [literary] I drove for a while across this fearsome emptiness. Collocations: fill the emptiness We consume, we watch spectacles, trying to fill that emptiness. Times, Sunday Times The activities of our new church helped our family fill the emptiness created in our lives by being uprooted from our former church. Christianity Today Unable to fill the emptiness she feels, she joins an expedition to explore the deserts outside the city. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They were filling the emptiness that comes with old love and new lawnmowers. Globe and Mail However, if your work leaves you with an inner emptiness, think about vocation, as opposed to merely bringing home the bacon. Times, Sunday Times He suggested we attach ourselves to a major religious system or our inner emptiness will invite some manner of physical disease. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Such persons manipulate and pressure others to change so as to avoid having to change themselves, and use power over others to escape an inner emptiness. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Behind the glamor of fashion and the awe of ages past lies a city in poverty and spiritual emptiness. Christianity Today Some other observers note that for all their cuteness and flippant humor, these cartoonlike characters evoke a sense of loneliness, anxiety and spiritual emptiness. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Even after basic things like physical hunger has been addressed, a dark shadow of spiritual emptiness seems to prevail. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 People experienced a spiritual emptiness and their thinking became marked by a lazy passivity due to the absence of will from the life of thought. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His stark poster-like artwork often dealt with themes of social alienation and spiritual emptiness. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 空虚 Japanese: むなしさ心の |
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