emptiness

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Calque from Chinese 虛宿/虚宿 (Xūxiù).

Inherited from Middle English emptynesse, from Old English ǣmtiġnes. By surface analysis, empty + -ness.

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: boshllëk — the state or feeling of being empty
• Azerbaijani: boşluq — the state or feeling of being empty
• Bulgarian: празнота (praznota) — the state or feeling of being empty
• Catalan: buidor — the state or feeling of being empty
• Catalan: buidesa — the state or feeling of being empty
• Chinese Mandarin: 空虛 /空虚 (kōngxū) — the state or feeling of being empty
• Chinese Mandarin: 空洞 (kōngdòng) — the state or feeling of being empty
• Czech: prázdnota — the state or feeling of being empty
• Danish: tomhed — the state or feeling of being empty
• Dutch: leegte — the state or feeling of being empty
• Finnish: tyhjyys — the state or feeling of being empty
• French: vide — the state or feeling of being empty
• French: néant — the state or feeling of being empty
• French: vacuité — the state or feeling of being empty
• Galician: baleiro — the state or feeling of being empty
• German: Leere — the state or feeling of being empty
• German: Leerheit — the state or feeling of being empty
• Greek: κενότητα (kenótita) — the state or feeling of being empty
• Ancient Greek: κενότης (kenótēs) — the state or feeling of being empty
• Hebrew: רֵיקָנוּת (reikanút) — the state or feeling of being empty
• Hindi: रिक्तता (riktatā) — the state or feeling of being empty
• Hindi: शून्यता (śūnyatā) — the state or feeling of being empty
• Hungarian: üresség — the state or feeling of being empty
• Irish: foilmhe — the state or feeling of being empty
• Japanese: 空虚 (kūkyo) — the state or feeling of being empty
• Japanese: 空 (kara) — the state or feeling of being empty
• Japanese: 虚しさ (munashisa) — the state or feeling of being empty
• Japanese: 空っぽ (karappo) — the state or feeling of being empty
• Central Kurdish: چۆڵیی (çollîy) — the state or feeling of being empty
• Northern Kurdish: valahî — the state or feeling of being empty
• Māori: tīaretanga — the state or feeling of being empty
• Norwegian: tomhet — the state or feeling of being empty
• Plautdietsch: Ladichkjeit — the state or feeling of being empty
• Polish: pustka — the state or feeling of being empty
• Portuguese: vazio — the state or feeling of being empty
• Russian: пустота́ (pustotá) — the state or feeling of being empty
• Spanish: vaciedad — the state or feeling of being empty
• Swedish: tomhet — the state or feeling of being empty
• Ukrainian: порожне́ча (porožnéča) — the state or feeling of being empty