Hollowness
111blank — I (emptiness) noun absence, barrenness, cipher, hiatus, hollowness, mexistence, insubstantiality, nil, nonesse, nonexistence, nonsubsistence, nonentity, nothing, nothingness, nullity, tabula rasa, unsubstantiality, vacancy, vacuousness, vacuum,… …
112Fløgstad, Kjartan — (1944 ) A Norwegian novelist, short story writer, and poet, Fløgstad is the most significant postmodernist in Norwegian literature. His first two published books were poetry collections, Valfart (1968; Pilgrimage) and Seremoniar (1969;… …
Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater
113Paludan, Jacob — (1896 1975) A Danish novelist and essayist, Paludan was a conservative voice in Danish literature during the inter war period. The son of a literary historian, he was educated as a pharmacist, and he traveled to the United States and Ecuador… …
Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater
114Blumenfeld, Kurt — (1884 1963), Zionist; championed the resettlement of Jews* to Palestine. Born to a judge s family in the East Prussian town of Marggrabowa, he was raised in an assimilated home. Although after legal studies he worked briefly in a judicial office …
115absurdity — Synonyms and related words: absurdness, act of folly, aimlessness, amphigory, anticness, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble babble, bizarreness, bizarrerie, blabber, blather, blunder, bombast, bootlessness, claptrap, craziness, curiousness,… …
116casuistry — Synonyms and related words: Christian ethics, Stoicism, aesthetics, altruistic ethics, apologetics, apologia, apology, apparent soundness, aretaics, argument, argumentation, axiology, bicker, bickering, categorical imperative, circularity,… …
117concavity — Synonyms and related words: aduncity, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, aquilinity, arching, arcuation, armpit, basin, boss, bowl, bump, cavity, circularity, colophon, concameration, concave, convexity, convolution, crater, crookedness, crypt, cup,… …
118deadness — Synonyms and related words: analgesia, anesthesia, aridity, barrenness, bloodlessness, callousness, characterlessness, colorlessness, dismalness, dragginess, dreariness, dryness, dullness, dustiness, effeteness, electronarcosis, emptiness,… …
119degradation — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abandonment, abasement, abjection, abjectness, ablation, abominableness, atomization, atrociousness, banishment, baseness, beggarliness, biodegradability, biodegradation, blackballing, breakup, bump, bust,… …
120demotion — Synonyms and related words: banishment, blackballing, comedown, concavity, de escalation, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, deformation, defrocking, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation,… …
