emptiness

emptiness

noun

Definition of EMPTINESS

1

a need or desire for food <the emptiness that usually sets in about three o'clock in the afternoon>

Synonyms appetite, belly, emptiness, famishment, munchies, stomach

Related Words rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity; malnutrition, starvation, undernourishment; craving, sweet tooth; famine, fast, hunger strike; gluttony, gourmandism, greed, hoggishness

Near Antonyms fill, fullness, glut, repleteness, repletion, satiation, satiety, satisfaction, surfeit

Antonyms inappetence

2

empty space <there in the vast emptiness of the desert was a long-abandoned jeep>

Synonyms black hole, blank, blankness, emptiness, vacuity, void

Related Words nothingness; inane, vacuum; air, open, waste; bareness, barrenness, bleakness, desolateness, hollowness; cavity, gap, hole, hollow

Near Antonyms fullness (also fulness), repleteness

3

the quality or state of being empty <the emptiness of the interior of the isolated house just made it seem all the more eerie>

Synonyms bareness, emptiness, vacantness, vacuity

Related Words hollowness; blankness, vacuum, void; nothingness; barrenness, bleakness, desolateness; availability, clearness, openness; depletion, dryness, exhaustion

Near Antonyms completeness; abundance, fatness, repleteness

Antonyms fullness (also fulness)