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  1. adjective Containing no matter; empty.
  2. adjective Not occupied; unfilled.
  3. adjective Completely lacking; devoid: void of understanding. See Synonyms at empty.
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  • As a result, a void has been an essential part of the modern ex­perience. —  Buddha
  • Certainly, any security expert whose network comes under successful attack from the void will be angry and embarrassed. —  Maximum Security -- Ch 31 -- Reality Bytes: Computer Security and the Law
  • Otherwise, if that which we call the void, or space, or intangible nature, had not a real existence, there would be nothing on which the bodies could be contained, or across which they could move, as we see that they really do move. —  The Life of Epicurus
  • Hmm. 'Fate' and 'blankness beyond' -- void -- naught -- rhymes with 'lot' which means Fate. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 04 - April 1999
  • Or they might label it as some kind of void, a shivery sensation, a scare square or a shimmery circle. —  Geis of the Gargoyle
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emptiness ·  abyss ·  blackness ·  depth ·  darkness ·  realm ·  expanse ·  devoid ·  waste ·  lack ·  agony ·  ocean

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void:   voids
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  1. Middle English, from Old French voide, feminine of voit, from Vulgar Latin *vocitus, alteration of Latin vacīvus, vocīvus, variant of vacuus, from vacāre, to be empty; see euə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English void, voyd, voide, from Old French voide, vuide, masculine and feminine, also void, vuid, vuit, masculine, empty, waste, vast, wide, hollow, also deprived, destitute, devoid; as a noun, a void, waste; French vide, empty, devoid; according to the usual derivation, from Latin viduus, bereft of husband or wife, bereft, deprived; but this derivation is difficult phonetically and in view of the existing F. veuf, masculine, veuve, feminine, widowed, deprived (as a noun, a widower, widow), from the same Latin viduus. The F. vide for vuide, however, has been influenced by association with the L. viduus. Another derivation, from Late Latin as if *vocitus for *vacitus, akin to vacare, be empty, vacuus, empty, vacivus, vocivus (see vacuous, vacant), rests on assumption. Cf. avoid, devoid.
  2. from Middle English voiden, from Old French voider, voidier, vuidier, vuider, French vider = Provencal voiar, voyar, vueiar, voidar = Catalan vuydar, make void; from the adjective Cf. avoid.
 

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