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- noun Plural form of
emptiness .
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Examples
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Significant gaps low down on one side which may influence what you're seeing and in Club Wembley, but cheap seats (such as Block 534, Row 21) very busy - big emptinesses are in the back rows in the next category up, but generally very full.
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Sophia Bender's father, Thomas, a history professor at New York University, says one of the "everyday emptinesses" he feels is at breakfast, when the family would read The New York Times and chat.
Free At Last! 2007
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There it stands, this incomprehensible faded show, a thing left on one side, and now still and deserted by any interest, its many emptinesses as inexplicable now as the cruelties of medieval Venice, the theology of old Byzantium.
In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006
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These lacks of impossible souls – in other words, these voidnesses (emptinesses) or absences of impossible ways of existing – are static phenomena, but not totally conceptional ones.
Basic Features of the Gelug-Chittamatra System ��� 1 Types of Phenomena and Ways of Existing 2006
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And for all that concerns ornaments of speech, similitudes, treasury of eloquence, and such like emptinesses, let it be utterly dismissed.
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And for all that concerns ornaments of speech, similitudes, treasury of eloquence, and such like emptinesses, let it be utterly dismissed.
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The secret of this form is itself, lying open in all the vast emptinesses of modern living.
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Or are you getting the usual emptinesses that normally come from spokesmen to a large degree?
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Thou wast not these emptinesses, nor was I nourished by them, but exhausted rather.
The Confessions 1999
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It is a necessary thing when one lives so near to the sea, and to other great emptinesses.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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