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Definition of "voidness" []

  • The state or condition of being void. (noun)

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Use "voidness" in a sentence
  • "Although they do not use the term voidness for this absence, nevertheless we can think of it as a type of voidness."
  • "Although the term voidness appears primarily in the Mahayana systems, we may use the term loosely to refer to both the lack of an impossible soul of a person (gang-zag-gi bdag-med, selflessness of a person, identitylessness of a person) and the lack of an impossible soul of phenomena (chos-kyi bdag-med, selflessness of phenomena, identitylessness of phenomena), Each tenet system specifies, within the context of its own definitions, the ways of existing and “souls” that are impossible."
  • "That second lack is usually referred to as a voidness (emptiness)."