Emptiness and Want

Emptiness

Emptiness noun - A need or desire for food.

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Want and emptiness are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Want" instead a noun "Emptiness".

Nearby Words: empty, emptying, emptily

Want noun - The fact or state of being absent.

Usage example: the proverb that begins, “for want of a nail, the shoe was lost”

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Emptiness and want are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Emptiness" instead a noun "Want".

Nearby Words: wanting, wanted

pleasant	pleasant emptiness	pleasant want
complete	complete emptiness	complete want
total	total emptiness	total want
true	true emptiness	true want
Other adjectives: horrible, absolute, odd.

The fact that you are empty means that you can fill that emptiness with as much as you want.

Source: Loss of Identity
It is implied that this is exactly what Patrick didn't want, however, and in the end, even his horrific crimes leave him with nothing but emptiness and despair.

Source: Karma Houdini / Literature
Leinster was aware that nebulae are extremely tenuous, but "A ship travelling at multiples of the speed of light does not want to run into even a merely hard vacuum; it needs true emptiness such as exists between the stars."

Source: Space Clouds

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