英语词汇“emptiness”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	emptiness
释义	emp·ti·ness \-tēnə̇s, -tin-\ noun (-es) Etymology: Middle English emptinesse, from empty + -nesse -ness 1. a. : the quality or state of being empty b. : the quality or state of lacking or being devoid of contents (as typical or customary) < the emptiness of the coal bin > < the emptiness of the garage > c. : the quality or state of being uninhabited, unfrequented, or containing no human beings < the emptiness, the blankness of great solitudes — Laurence Binyon > < the peculiar emptiness of the green meadows and the tiny hidden lanes — Margery Allingham > 2. a. : barrenness < life … ghastly in its emptiness and sterility — Aldous Huxley > especially : lack of imagination or creative ability < painting marked by simplicity but not emptiness > b. : lack of something necessary to spiritual growth or sustenance < the vulgarity, the cheapness, the showy pretentiousness, the dreadful emptiness of life for the middle classes during the uneasy peace — W.L.Shirer > < the spiritual emptiness of army life will have deeply affected the thinking habits of many men — B.B.Seligman > c. : inanity, foolishness, senselessness < he realized the emptiness of mere opposition to the United States on such questions — A.F.Buchan > d. : lack of significant purposefulness : an engaging in purposeless or inane activity < life without a customary companion was emptiness, ennui, restiveness and fidget — Francis Hackett > 3. : hunger < the family had sat down, ill-humored from emptiness, to dinner at four o'clock — Ellen Glasgow > 4. a. : lack < they were glad to overlook its frequent emptiness of content — Van Wyck Brooks > b. : lack of warmth, love, or affection < with her children she feels affectionate and at the same time has an impression of emptiness, which she gloomily interprets as complete indifference — H.M.Parshley > c. : marked unhappiness deriving from the loss of something loved < the emptiness of utter loss — F.R.Leavis > d. : sense of loss especially of something desirable < only an emptiness, a feeling that something was over — Stuart Cloete > 5. : uninhabited or unknown territory < stood on the shores of this nameless lake at last … saying that we should turn back from the emptiness which stretched ahead — Farley Mowat > < appears as a sort of outpost, standing almost on the edge of emptiness — Green Peyton > 6. : something lacking significant content : frivolity 2 < a play that was nothing more than a competent piece of emptiness > 7. Buddhism : nirvana
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