emptiness 
					英 [ˈemptinəs ]  
					美 [ˈemptinəs ]  
					n.  空虚; 空无; 空旷; 空地
					复数:emptinesses 
					
					Collins.1 / BNC.11876 / COCA.9389
					
					
						
							牛津词典 
							
								
									
										 noun
										空虚There was an aching emptiness in her heart.  
										空无;空旷The silence and emptiness of the house did not scare her.  
										空地He stared out at the vast emptiness that was the sea.  
									 
								 
								
							 
							
 
							柯林斯词典 
							
								
									
										N-UNCOUNT 空虚emptiness  is an unhappy or frightening feeling that nothing is worthwhile, especially when you are very tired or have just experienced something upsetting.
											The result later in life may be feelings of emptiness and depression.  
										N-UNCOUNT 空寂;空旷emptiness  of a place is the fact that there is nothing in it.
											...the emptiness of the desert.  
										N-SING 空旷之处;空地emptiness  is a very large area of land, sea, or space that has nothing in it.
											I drove for a while across this fearsome emptiness.  
									 
								 
								
							 
							
 
							双语例句 
							
								
									
										The result later in life may be feelings of emptiness and depression.  
										I drove for a while across this fearsome emptiness.  
										He looked around his dark, cluttered office and was engulfed by a feeling of emptiness.  
										The passing of time brought a sense of emptiness  
										The sense of space and emptiness is overwhelming.  
										All space-directions are void.; Everything is emptiness.  
										Past events have turned to emptiness, becoming like things in a dream.  
										Lonely sail, distant shadow,| vanish in blue emptiness;| all I see is the great river| flowing to the far horizon.  
										If I am empty, then all I can give you is my emptiness.  
										And I think it's because spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.  
										My eager hands press emptiness to my heart and it bruises my breast.  
										I felt a mix of emotions such as depression, loss, and emptiness.  
										So what is this emptiness, this loneliness?  
										We often cast our hopes and dreams aside, and then experience feelings of disillusionment or emptiness.  
										This way of life can lead only to self-destruction and emotional emptiness.  
										Can the mind face and live with this emptiness, and not escape in any direction?  
										This explains that all things have no self nature but emptiness, and all events have its inevitable cause.  
										You are left with this sort of numb emptiness.  
										Do not wait is old, recalls when own life in memory such paleness and emptiness!  
										Without you, life just an ever ending emptiness.  
										Why all this emptiness despite our wealth?  
										They put being alone in the same category as loneliness and emptiness.  
										"I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the word to the work.  
										And with his Irishman's sense of the tragic, she also knew he felt something about such emptiness.  
										So out of measurement and comparison comes the enormous cavity of emptiness and nothingness.  
										Fear arises out of this inner insufficiency, poverty and emptiness.  
										There's an emptiness, a distance from life that I can't seem to fix.  
										Now, I feel my world is missing something or feel emptiness.  
										Face it all, Henry won just disillusioned feeling, confusion feeling and emptiness.  
										We felt so free but emptiness is all that's left in me.  
									 
								 
								
							 
							
 
							英英释义 
							
								
									noun
									
										the quality of being valueless or futile
											he rejected the vanities of the world Synonym:    vanity 
										 
										an empty area or space
											the huge desert voids the emptiness of outer space without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum Synonym:    void vacancy vacuum 
										 
										having an empty stomach
											
										 
										the state of containing nothing