noun · neutral
emptiness
/ˈemptɪnəs/EMP·ti·ness
the state of being empty; a feeling of loneliness or lack of meaning
Examples
“After graduation he felt a strange emptiness without the routine of university.”
“The emptiness of the room made it feel colder.”
“Many novels explore the emptiness people can feel after success.”
Band 8 sentence
“After years of chasing promotion, he admitted to an underlying emptiness that no salary could fill.”
Collocations
- feel a sense of emptiness
- emotional emptiness
- spare emptiness
Word family
Common mistakes
He feel emptiness after failure.→He felt emptiness after failure.
Many emptinesses were noticed in the argument.→Many gaps/instances of emptiness were noticed in the argument.
Say it for a higher band
5lack→6hollowness→7+emptiness
Synonyms
void
hollowness
Easily confused
hollowness
“There was a hollowness in his voice after the argument.”
void
“She felt a void after the breakup.”
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