1ALONEa feeling of great sadness and loneliness 空虚;寂寥
She felt an emptiness in her heart when he left.
他走后她心里感到空虚。
2NONE/NOTHINGwhen there is nothing or nobody in a place 〔地方的〕空旷
emptiness of
the silence and emptiness of the desert
沙漠的寂静和空旷
Examples from the Corpus
emptiness• We left Lincoln tied to a water pipe in the concreteemptiness of the backyard.• A lot of people have a sort of emptiness in their lives.• He describes the suffering, emptiness, abandonment and loneliness that he is experiencing.• Or perhaps it was that recollection, however poignant, was better than emptiness.• His parishionersapplauded more out of charity than conviction, and the emptiness of the ovationembarrassed both speaker and audiencealike.• After that they made better progress and managed to slipundetected out into the emptiness.• The emptiness in which all things revolve is blue, she went on, in her half-waking state.• Some vastemptiness seemed to drive him on, a craving for warmth and reassurance.