虚きょ無む感かん

noun

sense of emptiness; feeling of meaninglessness

A psychological or philosophical feeling that life or a situation lacks meaning, purpose, or substance. Often used in literary, psychological, or everyday contexts to describe a hollow or empty emotional state.

• 仕し事ごとに追おわれる毎まい日にちで、虚きょ無む感かんに襲おそわれることがある。

  Caught up in work every day, I sometimes get hit by a sense of emptiness.

• 彼かれは成せい功こうした後あとも、虚きょ無む感かんを拭ぬぐえなかった。

  Even after succeeding, he couldn't shake off the feeling of meaninglessness.