void

void

noun

Definition of VOID

1

an incomplete or deficient area <a repressed memory that left a huge void in her recollection of her adolescent years>

Synonyms hiatus, hole, lacuna, space, void

Related Words defectiveness, detriment, disability, failing, fault, impairment, weakness; deficiency, deficit, imperfection, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness, insufficience, insufficiency, lack, need, shortcoming, shortfall, want

Near Antonyms completeness, fullness

2

empty space <those ancient travelers who traversed those vast watery voids between the islands of Oceania>

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

an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge) <the client wanted an old-fashioned stone wall and did not want the voids filled in with mortar>

Synonyms breach, break, discontinuity, gulf, hiatus, hole, interstice, interval, opening, rent, rift, separation, void

Related Words chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure; notch, slit, slot, split; interspace, pore; abyss, aperture, cavity, chasm, gape, orifice; fracture, rupture, severance, sundering