"emptiness" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-emptiness.wav Forms: emptinesses [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English emptynesse, from Old English ǣmtiġnes. By surface analysis, empty + -ness. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|en|enm|emptynesse|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle English emptynesse, {{inh+|en|enm|emptynesse}} Inherited from Middle English emptynesse, {{inh|en|ang|ǣmtiġnes}} Old English ǣmtiġnes, {{surf|en|empty|-ness}} By surface analysis, empty + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} emptiness (countable and uncountable, plural emptinesses)
  1. The state or feeling of being empty. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the state or feeling of being empty): boshllëk [masculine] (Albanian), κενότης (kenótēs) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), boşluq (Azerbaijani), празнота (praznota) [feminine] (Bulgarian), buidor [feminine] (Catalan), buidesa [feminine] (Catalan), چۆڵیی (çollîy) (Central Kurdish), 空虛 /空虚 (kōngxū) (Chinese Mandarin), 空洞 (kōngdòng) (Chinese Mandarin), prázdnota [feminine] (Czech), tomhed (Danish), leegte [feminine] (Dutch), tyhjyys (Finnish), vide [masculine] (French), néant [masculine] (French), vacuité [feminine] (French), baleiro [masculine] (Galician), Leere [feminine] (German), Leerheit [feminine] (German), κενότητα (kenótita) [feminine] (Greek), ריקנות (reikanút) [feminine] (Hebrew), रिक्तता (riktatā) [feminine] (Hindi), üresség (Hungarian), foilmhe [feminine] (Irish), 空虚 (kūkyo) (alt: くうきょ) (Japanese), (kara) (alt: から) (Japanese), 虚しさ (munashisa) (Japanese), 空っぽ (karappo) (Japanese), tīaretanga (Maori), valahî [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), tomhet (Norwegian), Ladichkjeit [feminine] (Plautdietsch), pustka [feminine] (Polish), vazio [masculine] (Portuguese), пустота́ (pustotá) [feminine] (Russian), vacío [masculine] (Spanish), vaciedad [feminine] (Spanish), vacuidad [feminine] (Spanish), tomhet [common-gender] (Swedish), порожне́ча (porožnéča) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-emptiness-en-noun-49pDjRSS Disambiguation of 'the state or feeling of being empty': 98 2 0
  2. A void; a nothingness; something lacking existence. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  3. A nonexistence; a lack of existence. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-emptiness-en-noun-8Q2EuPDV
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: emptinesse [obsolete] Derived forms: nonemptiness

Inflected forms

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      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
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      "word": "boshllëk"
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      "word": "boşluq"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "празнота"
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      "word": "buidor"
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      "word": "buidesa"
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      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "word": "空虛 /空虚"
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      "word": "tomhed"
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      "word": "leegte"
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      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "word": "tyhjyys"
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      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
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      "word": "vide"
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      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "néant"
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      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "vacuité"
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      "code": "gl",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "baleiro"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Leere"
    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Leerheit"
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    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kenótita",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "κενότητα"
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      "code": "grc",
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      "roman": "kenótēs",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "reikanút",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ריקנות"
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    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "riktatā",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
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    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "word": "üresség"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "foilmhe"
    },
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      "alt": "くうきょ",
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      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "word": "空虚"
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      "alt": "から",
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      "roman": "kara",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "word": "空"
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "munashisa",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "word": "虚しさ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "karappo",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "word": "空っぽ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ckb",
      "lang": "Central Kurdish",
      "roman": "çollîy",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "word": "چۆڵیی"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "valahî"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "word": "tīaretanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "word": "tomhet"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Ladichkjeit"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "pustka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "vazio"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pustotá",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "пустота́"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "vacío"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "vaciedad"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "vacuidad"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "tomhet"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "porožnéča",
      "sense": "the state or feeling of being empty",
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      "word": "порожне́ча"
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