emptiness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the state of containing nothing
  2. noun having an empty stomach
  3. noun an empty area or space
    vacancy; void; vacuum.
    • the huge desert voids
    • the emptiness of outer space
    • without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum
  4. noun the quality of being valueless or futile
    vanity.
    • he rejected the vanities of the world

WordNet

Emp"ti*ness noun
Etymology
From Empty.
Definitions
  1. The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.
  2. Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.
  3. Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind.
    Eternal smiles his emptiness betray. Pope.
    The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite. Tennyson.

Webster 1913