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Meanings of emptiness in English

Portuguese
vaga
Catalan
buit
Spanish
vacío

An empty area or space.

        vaga
        Russian
        пустота
        Catalan
        buit
        Spanish
        vacuidad

        Absence of contents.

            Related terms
            пустота
            Portuguese
            vaidade
            Catalan
            insignificància
            Spanish
            vanidad

            The quality of being valueless or futile.

                  vaidade
                  Russian
                  пустота
                  Spanish
                  vacio
                  Catalan
                  buit

                  Human condition is a sense of generalized boredom, social alienation and apathy; feelings of emptiness often accompany dysthymia, depression, loneliness, anhedonia, despair, or other mental/emotional disorders.

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                          Related terms
                          пустота
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                          Examples for "vanity"
                          Examples for "vanity"
                          1
                          She is all vanity: fancies herself beautiful; witty; in short, like you.
                          The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol. I. / With A Su...
                          2
                          Even these four showers and double vanity, she said with great enthusiasm.
                          News.com.au
                          3
                          My professional vanity was intrigued; I thought I could save The Times.
                          Reuters
                          4
                          Hugh was always beginning things he couldn't finish: law, the vanity, fatherhood.
                          Breeder
                          5
                          The tears were in his eyes; his sensitive vanity was cruelly wounded.
                          Jezebel's Daughter
                          Usage of emptiness in English
                          1
                          Each time I thought of Señora Ch'i'p, I felt a great emptiness.
                          Grave Secrets
                          2
                          The sea was emptiness, a reminder of infinity, an absence of limits.
                          Depths
                          3
                          Why did the emptiness inside remain every time she thought of him?
                          Gingham bride
                          4
                          The thought gave the very emptiness of the plains a different feel.
                          Lonesome dove
                          5
                          It was so easy; the depth it affects to conceal, mere emptiness.
                          Four Weird Tales
                          6
                          The only road-twogravel ruts-ledwest into hundreds of miles of emptiness.
                          The Hyperion Cantos
                          7
                          Still, something nagged at me, a sense of not-quite-emptiness to the house.
                          Storm front
                          8
                          In the sonorous emptiness of the place, there ensued a heated discussion.
                          L'Assommoir
                          9
                          They are all on the road to the emptiness of the asylum.
                          Orthodoxy
                          10
                          The first thing that struck him was the emptiness of the place.
                          Charles Rex
                          11
                          I haven't slept much since, and I feel a sense of emptiness.
                          News.com.au
                          12
                          He could feel her on his shoulder, yet inside him, just emptiness.
                          Rakes and radishes
                          13
                          Finding something to replace the emptiness wasn't going to be as easy.
                          I'm in No Mood for Love
                          14
                          Off in emptiness the many-colored mass of Earth shone hugely, rolling past.
                          Space Tug
                          15
                          Space and all its emptiness was to be loved for its freedom.
                          The Neutronium Alchemist
                          16
                          What tempts him is the possibility of escaping his sense of emptiness.
                          The eye of the leopard
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                          Emptiness through the time
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