emptiness

Other forms of emptiness

plural

emptinesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about emptiness

What does emptiness mean?

emptiness means "the state of containing nothing". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in emptiness?

emptiness has 3 syllables: emp-ti-ness. The stress falls on "emp". In IPA it is /ˈɛmptinəs/.

What is another word for emptiness?

Close synonyms include void, vacancy, vacuum, vanity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of emptiness?

The recorded antonyms are fullness.

Is emptiness a common word?

emptiness is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.