In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
EMPTINESS
vanity, emptiness
(noun) the quality of being valueless or futile; “he rejected the vanities of the world”
void, vacancy, emptiness, vacuum
(noun) an empty area or space; “the huge desert voids”; “the emptiness of outer space”; “without their support he’ll be ruling in a vacuum”
emptiness
(noun) having an empty stomach
emptiness
(noun) the state of containing nothing
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
emptiness (countable and uncountable, plural emptinesses)
The state or feeling of being empty.
Anagrams
• Stempiens, sepiments
Etymology
Proper noun
Emptiness
(astronomy) a Chinese constellation near Aquarius and Equuleus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the Black Turtle
Anagrams
• Stempiens, sepiments
Source: Wiktionary
Emp"ti*ness, n. Etym: [From Empty.]
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; 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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