emptiness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state or feeling of being empty; an emotion that combines hollowness, numbness, disconnection and a lack of meaning in life, resulting in existential boredom, ennui or depression. countable,uncountable
  2. A void; a nothingness; something lacking existence. countable,uncountable
    — Few people without a training in science can realise the huge isolation of the solar system. The sun with its specks of planets, its dust of planetoids, and its impalpable comets, swims in a vacant immensity that almost defeats the imagination. Beyond the orbit of Neptune there is space, vacant so far as human observation has penetrated, without warmth or light or sound, blank emptiness, for twenty million times a million miles. That is the smallest estimate of the distance to be traversed before the very nearest of the stars is attained.
  3. A nonexistence; a lack of existence. countable,uncountable

词形变化

emptinesses plural emptinesse alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
nonemptiness

词源

Inherited from Middle English emptynesse, from Old English ǣmtiġnes. By surface analysis, empty + -ness.
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