Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being empty; the state of containing nothing, or nothing but air: as, the emptiness of a vessel.
- n. Lack of food in the stomach; a state of fasting.
- n. Void space; a vacuum.
- n. Want of solidity or substance.
- n. Unsatisfactoriness; insufficiency to satisfy the mind or heart; worthlessness.
- n. Want of understanding or knowledge; vacuity of mind; inanity.
- n. Synonyms Vanity, hollowness, nothingness.
Wiktionary
- n. The state or feeling of being empty
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum.
- n. Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness.
- n. Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind.
WordNet 3.0
- n. having an empty stomach
- n. an empty area or space
- n. the state of containing nothing
- n. the quality of being valueless or futile
Examples
“In advocating what he calls emptiness, he is in effect saying that it is possible to achieve all the benefits of Daoist emptiness without trying to achieve that extreme form of emptiness.”
“This is what I call the emptiness of having everything.”
“Her lower-topsails hung in limp emptiness from the yards, heavy with rain and flapping soggily when she rolled.”
“The feeling of emptiness is still there, so maybe i haven't completely forgiven him, and somtimes its hard to tell if i did forgive him.”
“But I kind of think all that emptiness is beautiful.”
“In substance there is emptiness, he wrote, but in emptiness there is substance.”
“The emptiness is the most notable thing about the workspace, he and his office mates have a huge amount of licences when it comes to arranging their space – the table in the second picture below is a ping-pong table created from wood they salvaged from the previous occupants remodelling of the space.”
“Whatever notion we may have about emptiness is not emptiness," writes Glassman, "but merely an idea of emptiness.”
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
“In other words its emptiness is not in spite of its existence.”
“In the shentong view emptiness is only the basis of phenomenal appearance.”
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This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
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