English → Latin
“emptiness” in Latin
inānisempty, void, hollow; vain; purposeless, meaningless, worthless, useless, fruitless, empty, idlevacuitāsempty space, vacancy, vacuityvacuusempty, vacant, unoccupied; devoid or free of; without; free; unoccupiedvānitāsemptiness, nothingness; falsity, falsehood, deception, untruth, untrustworthiness, fickleness; vanity, vaingloryinānitāsemptiness, empty space; uselessness, inanity
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
emptiness
inane: vacuitas: vacuum [SYN. in EMPTY]: vanitas (IMPROP., the emptiness of a thing; then, also, the superficial, empty character of a person’s mind): inanitas (empty space, Cic.; then, also, what is useless, etc.; e.g., inanitatem omnem et errorem circumcidere, Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for emptiness?
- The usual Latin words for “emptiness” are inānis, vacuitās, vacuus; also vānitās, inānitās. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.