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noun
The haunting quality of seeing a location typically full of people in a state of emptiness or abandonment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: neologism, rare, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, from Ancient Greek κενός (kenós, “empty”) and the modern English suffix -opsia, itself from the Ancient Greek -οψία (-opsía, “sight”).
