Crossword-Solution: EMPTINESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Emptiness | n. | The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach. |
| Emptiness | n. | Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory. |
| Emptiness | n. | Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind. |
We have 58 clues for the answer “EMPTINESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the state of containing nothing | 1 answer |
| sparseness | 1 answer |
| in a void | 1 answer |
| having an empty stomach | 1 answer |
| Void, nothingness | 1 answer |
| Sense of loss. | 2 answers |
| Sad feeling | 2 answers |
| tenuity | 4 answers |
| virgin territory | 4 answers |
| absenteeism | 7 answers |
| imponderability | 7 answers |
| disappearance | 10 answers |
| Vacancy | 14 answers |
| Vacuum | 17 answers |
| Vacuity | 18 answers |
| Oblivion | 20 answers |
| nothingness | 22 answers |
| incorporeality | 26 answers |
| hollowness | 27 answers |
| irrelevance | 28 answers |
| Vanity | 28 answers |
| drabness | 29 answers |
| desolateness | 29 answers |
| desertedness | 29 answers |
| infertility | 29 answers |
| inhospitableness | 29 answers |
| lonesomeness | 29 answers |
| waterlessness | 29 answers |
| purposelessness | 30 answers |
| bleakness | 30 answers |
| starkness | 30 answers |
| ALONENESS | 31 answers |
| cheerlessness | 31 answers |
| dreariness | 31 answers |
| bareness | 31 answers |
| Nakedness | 32 answers |
| loneliness | 34 answers |
| aridity | 34 answers |
| dryness | 35 answers |
| insubstantiality | 35 answers |
| blankness | 35 answers |
| Imagination | 38 answers |
| Solitude | 40 answers |
| Baldness | 40 answers |
| barrenness | 42 answers |
| futility | 49 answers |
| meaninglessness | 50 answers |
| uselessness | 58 answers |
| plainness | 59 answers |
| inanity | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EMPTINESS (5)
But apt the Mind or Fancie is to roave Uncheckt, and of her roaving is no end; Till warn’d, or by experience taught, she learne, That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and suttle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom, what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things that most concerne Unpractis’d, unprepar’d, and still to seek.
Nor do I—whom the scarlet letter has disciplined to truth, though it be the truth of red-hot iron entering into the soul—nor do I perceive such advantage in his living any longer a life of ghastly emptiness, that I shall stoop to implore thy mercy.
Continually, as we may express it, he faded away out of his place; or, in other words, his mind and consciousness took their departure, leaving his wasted, gray, and melancholy figure—a substantial emptiness, a material ghost—to occupy his seat at table.
But while she wondered at the difference of the two young men, she did not find that the emptiness and conceit of the one, put her out of all charity with the modesty and worth of the other.
Even the auctioneer went at last, and as he closed the door with a bang, the reverberation that went through the suite gave evidence of its emptiness.
Quotes with EMPTINESS (3)
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.
But I was youngand didn’t know betterand someone should have told me to capture every secondevery kiss & every night Because now I’m sitting here alone and it’s getting really hard to breath because tears are growing in my throat and they want to break out, but there are peoplewatchingand I just want to be somewhere silentsomewhere still But still I don’t want to be alone because I’m scared and lonelyand I don’t understand Because I was alone my whole life My whole life I was…
We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1968–2022).