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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 emptiness
 空虛,空腹,空處;無智,無能

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary

 emptiness
 空集問題

From: Network Terminology

 emptiness
 空集

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Emp·ti·ness, n.
 1. The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.
 2. Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; as, the emptiness of earthly glory.
 3. Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind.
    Eternal smiles his emptiness betray.   --Pope.
    The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite.   --Tennyson.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 emptiness
      n 1: the state of containing nothing [ant: fullness]
      2: having an empty stomach
      3: an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the
         emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be
         ruling in a vacuum" [syn: void, vacancy, vacuum]
      4: the quality of being valueless or futile; "he rejected the
         vanities of the world" [syn: vanity]