emptiness
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But it was always clear to any discerning viewer that these were the overcompensations of a man beset by eternal emptiness.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
"When they begin to feel they are no longer needed, they experience a profound sense of emptiness."
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
The women's father said their deaths had "left an emptiness that words cannot heal."
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Maintaining this pleasant emptiness is no easy task, as ghosts of Charles’s past slowly begin to invade his idyll.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
If we lift the veil and look underneath...we shall discover much emptiness, darkness, and confusion; nay, if I mistake not, direct impossibilities and contradictions....
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing emptiness
"Just Lather, That's All" and "The Woman Who Was Death"
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