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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness |
| Synonyms: | nihility, nothingness, vacancy, vacuum, void |
| Main Entry: | blank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty space |
| Synonyms: | abyss, cavity, chasm, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, hollowness, interstice, interval, lacuna, nihility, nothingness, nullity, omission, opening, preterition, pretermission, skip, tabula rasa, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, womb |
| Main Entry: | cavity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sunken or decayed area |
| Synonyms: | armpit, atrium, basin, bursa, caries, chamber, crater, decay, dent, depression, gap, hole, hollow, pit, pocket, sinus, socket, vacuity, void |
| Main Entry: | depression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concavity, cavity |
| Synonyms: | basin, bowl, crater, dent, dimple, dip, excavation, hole, hollow, impression, indentation, pit, pocket, sag, scoop, sink, sinkage, sinkhole, vacuity, vacuum, valley, void |
| Antonyms: | bulge, convexity, protuberance |
| Main Entry: | emptiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | void, bareness |
| Synonyms: | blank, blankness, chasm, depletedness, desertedness, desolation, destitution, exhaustion, gap, hollowness, inanition, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, waste |
| Antonyms: | capacity, fill, fullness |
| Main Entry: | gap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, breach |
| Synonyms: | aperture, arroyo, blank, caesura, canyon, chasm, cleft, clove, crack, cranny, crevice, cut, defile, difference, disagreement, discontinuity, disparity, divergence, divide, division, fracture, gorge, gulch, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, inconsistency, interlude, intermission, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, lacuna, lull, notch, opening, orifice, pause, ravine, recess, rent, respite, rest, rift, rupture, separation, slit, slot, space, vacuity, void |
| Antonyms: | closure |
| Main Entry: | hole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening in a solid object |
| Synonyms: | aperture, breach, break, burrow, cave, cavern, cavity, chamber, chasm, chink, cistern, cleft, covert, crack, cranny, crater, cut, den, dent, depression, dimple, dip, excavation, eyelet, fissure, foramen, fracture, gap, gash, gorge, hollow, hovel, keyhole, lacuna, lair, leak, mouth, nest, niche, nick, notch, orifice, outlet, passage, peephole, perforation, pit, pocket, pockmark, puncture, rent, retreat, scoop, shaft, shelter, space, split, tear, tunnel, vacuity, vent, void, window |
| Notes: | a hole is an opening or cavity into or through something, while whole means complete, not divided |
| Antonyms: | closure, solid |
| Main Entry: | hollow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty or dented area |
| Synonyms: | basin, bottom, bowl, cave, cavern, cavity, chamber, channel, cleft, concavity, crater, cup, dale, den, depression, dimple, dip, dish, excavation, groove, gulf, hole, indentation, notch, pit, pocket, sag, scoop, sinkage, sinkhole, socket, trough, vacuity, valley, void |
| Antonyms: | solid |
| Main Entry: | negation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contradiction, denial |
| Synonyms: | antithesis, antonym, blank, cancellation, contrary, converse, counterpart, disavowal, disclaimer, forget it, gainsaying, inverse, negatory, neutralization, no, nonexistence, nothingness, nullification, nullity, opposite, opposition, proscription, refusal, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, reverse, vacuity, veto, void |
| Antonyms: | allowance, approval, permission |
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