Origin of void

1250–1300; (adj.) Middle English voide < Anglo-French, Old French < Vulgar Latin *vocīta, feminine of *vocītus, dissimilated variant of Latin vocīvus, itself variant of vac(ī)vus empty; see vacuum; (v.) Middle English voiden < Anglo-French voider, Old French < Vulgar Latin *vocītāre, derivative of *vocītus; (noun) derivative of the adj.

SYNONYMS FOR void

3, 4 See empty.
5 vacant, unoccupied.
8 vacuum.
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OTHER WORDS FROM void

Words nearby void

voice-stress analyzer, voiced, voiceful, voiceless, voiceprint, void, voidable, voidance, voided, voider, voiding cystogram

Words related to voidness

job, gap, void, vacuum, vacuousness, abstraction, room, space, lack, position, situation, vacuity, emptiness, opportunity, post

Example sentences from the Web for voidness

  • The nadir of night was passed, but there was cold and voidness, an abyss.

    Foes |Mary Johnston

  • And if any one should thus question him; What sayst thou, Epicurus, that this is voidness, and that the nature of voidness?

    Essays and Miscellanies |Plutarch

British Dictionary definitions for voidness

void
/ (vɔɪd) /

adjective

noun

verb (mainly tr)

Derived forms of void

voider, noun voidness, noun

Word Origin for void

C13: from Old French vuide, from Vulgar Latin vocītus (unattested), from Latin vacuus empty, from vacāre to be empty

Medical definitions for voidness

void
[ void ]

v.

To excrete body wastes.

adj.

Containing no matter; empty.

Idioms and Phrases with voidness

void

see null and void.