empty space
Noun

empty space (plural empty spaces)

  1. An unoccupied space where something may be stored
    You can park your car in that empty space.
    You can put the key in that empty space.
  2. An unoccupied area or volume.
    The empty space at the sides of the page is called the "margin".
    He spends all his time staring into empty space.
  3. Vacuum; a space containing nothing at all
    Atoms are mostly empty space.
  4. A feeling of longing for someone or something that is gone; a sense of a thing's absence.
    • 1998, Renny Christopher, ‎Linda Strom, ‎Lisa Orr, Working Class Studies: 1 & 2, page 175:
      The body of the working-class man of the 1930s — and to an extent its text — is hungry, an empty space once filled by its labor.



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