Synonyms for emptiness
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Void
2. Hollowness
hollowness, senselessness, vanity, insignificance, triviality, frivolity, inanity, mockery
Definitions
- n. 1
The state or feeling of being empty; an emotion that combines hollowness, numbness, disconnection and a lack of meaning in life, resulting in existential boredom, ennui or depression.
- n. 2
A void; a nothingness; something lacking existence.
Forms
- Plural
- emptinesses → voids, nothingnesses, vacuities, vacuums…
Example sentences
- void The beach was completely void of any other people.
- vacancy Elias began looking for any motel with a vacancy.
- nothingness The human mind cannot conceive of absolute nothingness.
- senselessness The senselessness of the act appalled him.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| emptiness | rising | |
| void | steady | |
| vacancy | falling | |
| nothingness | rising | |
| vacuity | rising | |
| hollowness | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- void1
- 5 letters
- space1
- 6 letters
- vacuum2, vanity3
- 7 letters
- vacancy3, mockery3, inanity, vacuity
- 9 letters
- frivolity4, inanition
- 10 letters
- triviality5, hollowness
- 11 letters
- nothingness3, vacuousness
- 13 letters
- senselessness
- 14 letters
- insignificance5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (vacuum2 = 2 syllables).