they were glad to overlook its frequent emptiness of content—Van Wyck Brooks
b
: lack of warmth, love, or affection
with her children she feels affectionate and at the same time has an impression of emptiness, which she gloomily interprets as complete indifference—H. M. Parshley
c
: marked unhappiness deriving from the loss of something loved
the emptiness of utter loss—F. R. Leavis
d
: sense of loss especially of something desirable
only an emptiness, a feeling that something was over—Stuart Cloete
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: uninhabited or unknown territory
stood on the shores of this nameless lake at last … saying that we should turn back from the emptiness which stretched ahead—Farley Mowat
appears as a sort of outpost, standing almost on the edge of emptiness—Green Peyton
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