emptiness

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the state of containing nothing
  2. noun having an empty stomach
  3. noun an empty area or space

Etymology

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

In classic literature

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
condition
Narrower (hyponyms)
vacancy, hollowness, vacuum, blankness
Opposite (antonyms)
fullness

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