Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being void,
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being void; emptiness; vacuity; nullity; want of substantiality.
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- noun The state or condition of being
void .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Although they do not use the term voidness for this absence, nevertheless we can think of it as a type of voidness.
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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.
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Thus, although voidness does not correspond to the truly findably existent category voidness, which the name voidness conceptualizes, nevertheless the name voidness conventionally refers to voidness.
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The conceptual categories may be: merely an audio category, as in the case of thinking the word voidness without having any idea of what it means, or both an audio category and a meaning category, as in the case of thinking the word voidness together with a meaning associated with the word, even if that meaning is inaccurate.
Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations in Alternating Order 2006
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The conceptual categories may be: merely an audio category, as in the case of thinking the word voidness without having any idea of what it means, or both an audio category and a meaning category, as in the case of thinking the word voidness together with a meaning associated with the word, even if that meaning is inaccurate.
Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Gelug Presentation 2006
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That second lack is usually referred to as a voidness (emptiness).
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That second lack is usually referred to as a voidness (emptiness).
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Subtle and subtlest mental activity nonconceptually cognize the same voidness, namely voidness as an absolute absence of true existence.
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The total absence of this impossible mode of establishing the existence of something validly knowable is what is referred to as the voidness of that object.
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Third is the voidness of the result, namely the voidness of the enlightenment or the various Buddha-Bodies that we are aiming to achieve through the practice.
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