Synonyms of emptiness

emptiness

noun

1

as in hunger

a need or desire for food

the emptiness that usually sets in about three o'clock in the afternoon

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hunger
• stomach
• appetite
• starvation
• craving
• munchies
• belly
• famishment
• rapacity
• greed
• malnutrition
• voracity
• undernourishment
• famine
• ravenousness
• voraciousness
• rapaciousness
• gluttony
• fast
• sweet tooth
• hunger strike
• hoggishness
• gourmandism

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fullness
• satisfaction
• fill
• inappetence
• satiation
• satiety
• repletion
• glut
• surfeit
• repleteness

2

as in void

empty space

there in the vast emptiness of the desert was a long-abandoned jeep

Synonyms & Similar Words

• void
• vacancy
• blankness
• blank
• vacuity
• black hole
• nothingness
• gap
• vacuum
• hollowness
• barrenness
• cavity
• air
• bleakness
• open
• hollow
• hole
• desolateness
• waste
• inane
• bareness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fullness
• repleteness

3

as in vacancy

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 & Similar Words

• vacancy
• vacuum
• hollowness
• bareness
• bleakness
• openness
• vacuity
• void
• clearness
• exhaustion
• blankness
• nothingness
• vacantness
• barrenness
• availability
• dryness
• depletion
• desolateness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fullness
• completeness
• abundance
• fatness
• repleteness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of emptiness

Carson’s account of desire helps explain why this creed leads to two kinds of emptiness. — Stacy Keltner, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026

Such stylish emptiness is daunting, and one doesn’t envy those who are now being encouraged to try it on for size. — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

In parts of La Guaira, where dozens of buildings collapsed, only emptiness and silence remain. — CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

There is an emptiness left behind that cannot be filled, and there are so many of us who will never be quite the same without you. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026

Occasional moments of real, spontaneous joy emerge, and others reveal the crushing emptiness of lives going nowhere, but the script doesn’t lean too hard in either direction. — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026

In all of the sketchbook entries reproduced here, Ross seems to offer a bridge between the representation of emptiness and the lived sensation of it. — Ryan Sullivan, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

Treating emptiness as sophistication becomes incapable of distinguishing moral from aesthetic judgment. — Frank Porcu, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026

Markets have seen through the emptiness of Bessent’s remedy, as ‘bond vigilantes’ have driven bond yields even higher despite Bessent’s band-aids. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026