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пустота́ — meaning in English

pustota

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English meaning

  • blank adj Free of writing, marks, or content; empty.
  • emptiness noun The state of containing nothing; being empty.
  • hollow noun A small valley or dip between hills, or a sunken area on a surface.
  • inanition noun The act of emptying something, or the state of being empty.
  • void adjective Completely empty; containing nothing.

Senses

пустота́ is used for these senses in English:

  • blank An empty space; a void, for example on a paper [since the 16th century].
  • hollow (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
  • inanition (philosophy) A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to nausea in existentialist philosophy.

blank — full definition

  1. adj Free of writing, marks, or content; empty.
  2. adj Showing no expression, understanding, or emotion.
  3. noun A cartridge loaded with gunpowder but no bullet, used for training or effects rather than firing a projectile.
  4. verb To go suddenly unable to remember something.
  5. verb To deliberately ignore someone.

emptiness — full definition

  1. noun The state of containing nothing; being empty.
  2. noun A feeling of hollowness or lack of meaning, sometimes linked to sadness or loneliness.
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