sense of emptiness

collocation in English

meaningsofsenseandemptiness

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sense
noun
uk
/sens/us
/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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emptiness
noun[U]
uk
/ˈemp.ti.nəs/us
/ˈemp.ti.nəs/
empty ...
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(Definition ofsenseandemptinessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsense of emptiness

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Unlike their dreams of the freedom and openness of western society, often what they find is a profoundsenseofemptinessthat seizes them ferociously.
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They include, for example, dissociation and the characteristic painfulsenseofemptiness.
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Slightly more than half of the women, including a majority of the widows, continued to experience asenseofemptinessand missed pleasurable company on a day-to-day basis.
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Many of us remember that curioussenseofemptinessand even flatness.
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Following its spread across the constituency, thesenseofemptinessis in places palpable.
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He gets left with asenseofemptiness, of anticlimax, almost of frustration.
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To read it fills one with asenseofemptinessand almost of despair.
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Bereavement is, of course, always a painful experience, and those who are closest to the deceased always experience asenseofemptinessand desolation.
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In cultures where asenseofemptinessis seen as a negative psychological condition, it is often associated with depression.
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In sociology, asenseofemptinessis associated with social alienation of the individual.
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It is played at a very slow tempo, and places an emphasis on evoking asenseofemptinessand despair.
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It's very simple but there's this bigsenseofemptinessin it.
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Asenseofemptinessis also part of a natural process of grief, as resulting of separation, death of a loved one, or other significant changes.
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