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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts

Meaning of "hollowness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HOLLOWNESS

hollowness  [ˈhɒləʊnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOLLOWNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hollowness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HOLLOWNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hollowness in the English dictionary

The first definition of hollowness in the dictionary is the quality or state of having a hole, cavity, or space within; not solid. Other definition of hollowness is the quality or state of having a sunken area or being concave. Hollowness is also the quality or state of being recessed or deeply set.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOLLOWNESS


Adonis
əˈdəʊnɪs
coronis
kəˈrəʊnɪs
Draconis
dreɪˈkəʊnɪs
Issigonis
ˌɪsɪˈɡəʊnɪs
Leonis
liːˈəʊnɪs
lowness
ˈləʊnɪs
mellowness
ˈmɛləʊnɪs
narrowness
ˈnærəʊnɪs
Orionis
ˌɔːrɪˈəʊnɪs
Pavonis
pəˈvəʊnɪs
sallowness
ˈsæləʊnɪs
shallowness
ˈʃæləʊnɪs
slowness
ˈsləʊnɪs
yellowness
ˈjɛləʊnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOLLOWNESS

holler
hollies
Holliger
hollo
holloa
hollow
hollow-back
hollow-cheeked
hollow-eyed
holloware
hollowly
hollowware
holly
holly berry
holly oak
hollyhock

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOLLOWNESS

askewness
awareness
callowness
darkness
do the business
effectiveness
fallowness
fewness
fitness
happiness
illness
in the wilderness
madness
newness
nowness
rawness
skewness
thickness
tiredness
wellness

Synonyms and antonyms of hollowness in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «hollowness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOLLOWNESS

Find out the translation of hollowness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hollowness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hollowness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

空虚
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

oquedad
570 millions of speakers

English

hollowness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खोखलापन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خواء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пустота
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hollowness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অসারতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cavité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hollowness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hohlheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

むなしさ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

공허함
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hollowness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nông cạn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெற்றுத்தனத்தை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खोटारडेपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

boğukluk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

falsità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pustka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

порожнеча
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

goliciune
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κενότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kaalheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ihålighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hulhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hollowness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOLLOWNESS»

The term «hollowness» is regularly used and occupies the 82.281 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOLLOWNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hollowness

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2 QUOTES WITH «HOLLOWNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hollowness.
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Alan Watts
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Paul Wellstone
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOLLOWNESS»

Discover the use of hollowness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hollowness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Hollowness of American Myths in Sam Shepard ́s "Buried ...
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Tubingen (Englisches Seminar), course: PS II Literary Studies: Family Scenes: The American Family on Stage, language: English, abstract ...
Simone Leisentritt, 2011
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Unabridged Dictionary of the Sensations "as If".
Chininum Arseni- cosum (Hg) Hollowness Abdomen. — Sensation as of emptiness, hollowness or coldness in abdomen. Amanita, or Agaricus Muscarius (Hg) Hollowness Abdomen. — Emptiness and sensation as of hollowness in the  ...
James William Ward, 1985
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SPE/ANTEC 2001 Proceedings
The variation of the glass transition temperature with hollowness was very complex. The Tg of the 37% hollow fiber is actually less that the Tg of the solid fiber, even though, as Table 2 shows, the fractional crystallinity is higher in the 37 % ...
Spe, 2001
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Genesis and Structure of Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit"
On the other hand, that spirit is the reflection of the world of culture in the self, which knows and pronounces the hollowness of this world. Its interest is then merely the judgment on the hollowness of the whole culture. The self still focuses on ...
Jean Hyppolite, 1979
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Forestry Handbook
Evidences of rot and hollowness in the heartwood of hardwoods where large branches have been sawn or broken off. c. Large open wounds showing rot within. d. Dwarf mistletoe swellings with exposed dead wood on the trunks of firs. e.
Karl F. Wenger, 1984
6
Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization Disorder and the Loss of ...
This kind of speculation can be compelling to depersonalized people trying to make sense of their feelings of “mind emptiness” and hollowness. With such disturbing and unrelenting feelings, it's natural to wonder if somehow the reducing ...
Daphne Simeon, Jeffrey Abugel, 2006
7
Plastic Jesus: Exposing the Hollowness of Comfortable ...
Eric Sandras seeks to empower readers wherever they are to live life as Christ intended: with a radical sense of purpose that only He can provide.
Eric Sandras, 2006
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Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the ...
The hollowness of the jug is the ultimate hollowness of all mortal ambitions in the face of nothingness. The hollowness of the jug reveals the hollowness of the mortal's phantasies of domination - the treacherous vision of the will to power, ...
Ian Heywood, Barry Sandywell, 2005
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Intraocular Tumors: An Atlas and Textbook
B-scan ultrasonography of a medium-sized, dome-shaped ing progressively decreasing amplitude in the tumor (angle kappa). choroidal melanoma, showing characteristic acoustic hollowness and choroidal excavation. Figure 9.27.
Jerry A. Shields, Carol L. Shields, 2008
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The Secular Squeeze: Reclaiming Christian Depth in a Shallow ...
I Every culture has its symbols, its icons that reveal how it tries to fill its hollowness. Once our icon was the crucified God; now it's Campbell's Soup cans. Once we venerated Christ on the cross; now we venerate material success. We worship ...
John F. Alexander, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOLLOWNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hollowness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Let's Have Part Time Legislators By Okey Ndibe | Sahara Reporters
... candidates for cabinet posts at state and federal levels, Nigerian lawmakers have brought a mixture of laziness and ethical hollowness to the ... «SaharaReporters.com, Jul 15»
2
Hear the Movie, See the Sound (Part Four) - ASTD
When placed together, these visual and auditory signals gave the entire film an atmosphere of hollowness that added to the film's eerie ... «ATD, Jul 15»
3
Year of the Magnus Part 2: Combiner Wars Ultra … - Panels on Pages
It looks practically perfect. You can see some of the figure's hollowness from the back, but that's fairly common for Hasbro figures these days. «Panels on Pages, Jul 15»
4
Mother Godavari ..... Pardon Us - Sakshi Post
The hollowness of the so-called fool-proof arrangements stood exposed. The number of dead is not the issue here. What is important is why ... «Sakshi Post, Jul 15»
5
Making sense of China's stock market mess | Brookings Institution
A skeptic would argue that the contradiction between market-friendly rhetoric and dirigiste reality shows up the hollowness of Xi's reform ... «Brookings Institution, Jul 15»
6
Chris Rooney :Why I Left Facebook
But it was the hollowness of the statement that got me, not its intention. That was the moment I decided to unplug from Zuckerberg's great ... «Huffington Post UK, Jul 15»
7
Opinion: Time to rethink treatment of Greece / LJWorld.com
The resultant tragedy has revealed the hollowness of Europe's political aspirations — and institutions. The euro was built on a mirage. Pre-euro ... «Lawrence Journal World, Jul 15»
8
Beyond brief reliefs and symbolic cuts
... may be necessary to force us to rethink our wasteful ways, our unfounded sense of entitlement and the hollowness of our economic base. «TheCable, Jul 15»
9
Innovators are killing us: Instead of reinventing housing or transit …
... three different words, it would seem, for the same thing, an alliterative redundancy that disguises the hollowness of the core concept. «Salon, Jul 15»
10
Rain drowns city, Varanasi Municipal Corporation claims
The hollowness of corporation officials' claim of "preparedness to tackle the problem" was evident across the city. Waterlogging led to long ... «Times of India, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Hollowness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/hollowness>. Apr 2024 ».
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