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emptiness

 noun
     
emp‧ti‧ness [uncountable]
1 a feeling of great sadness and loneliness:
She felt an emptiness in her heart when he left.
2 when there is nothing or nobody in a place
emptiness of
the silence and emptiness of the desert
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