Word · Frequency #11876
emptiness
空虚；空
核心释义
the state of containing nothing
- 1.
空虚的状态或感觉；一种情绪,结合空虚、麻木、疏离和生命无意义感,导致存在性无聊、厌倦或抑郁。
The state or feeling of being empty; an emotion that combines hollowness, numbness, disconnection and a lack of meaning in life, resulting in existential boredom, ennui or depression.
- 2.
空无一物的状态
the state of containing nothing
- 3.
虚空；虚无；不存在之物。
A void; a nothingness; something lacking existence.
- 4.
空腹
having an empty stomach
- 5.
不存在；缺乏存在。
A nonexistence; a lack of existence.
- 6.
空旷的区域或空间
an empty area or space
空虚的状态或感觉；一种情绪,结合空虚、麻木、疏离和生命无意义感,导致存在性无聊、厌倦或抑郁。；空无一物的状态；虚空；虚无；不存在之物。；空腹；不存在；缺乏存在。
用法In use
The emptiness of the old room made it feel cold.
用法提示：名词，指‘空无一物、空旷的状态’。
She felt a deep emptiness after her best friend moved away.
用法提示：名词，指‘空虚感、情感上的空落’。
The emptiness of his promise soon became clear to everyone.
用法提示：名词，指‘没有实质内容、空洞’。
the emptiness of outer space
a sense/feeling of emptiness
常与 sense/feeling 搭配，表示内心空虚的感觉。
After he moved abroad, he felt a deep sense of emptiness.
他搬到国外后，感到一种深深的空虚感。
the emptiness of [noun]
相关词与表达Connections
搭配Collocations
- a sense of emptiness
- 一种空虚感
- After he moved away, she felt a deep sense of emptiness.他搬走后，她感到一种深深的空虚。
- emotional emptiness
- 情感空虚
- He tried to overcome his emotional emptiness by keeping busy.他试图通过让自己忙起来来克服情感空虚。
- fill the emptiness
- 填补空虚
- She tried to fill the emptiness with online shopping.她试图用网上购物来填补空虚。
- spiritual emptiness
- 精神空虚
- Success did not cure his spiritual emptiness.成功并没有治愈他的精神空虚。
- the emptiness of space
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧Memory Tip
empty（空）加名词后缀-ness，就是“空的状态”；想象空荡荡的房间，里面什么也没有，心中感到空虚。
语境与语域Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：客观描述、空间描写 该词在表示“空无一物的状态”时，通常属于中性语体，多用于描述空间或容器为空，也可引申为精神上的空虚感；正式与非正式场合都可见，但以书面语和文学语境中较为常见。
发音与拼写Pronunciation & Spelling
happiness, laziness, readiness and loneliness all end with the same unstressed /inəs/ sound as emptiness, though their stressed vowels differ. business and illness are useful spelling lookalikes: business is pronounced /ˈbɪznəs/ and illness /ˈɪlnəs/, so they do not share the /inəs/ ending.
用法优先级Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
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