emptiness vs famine

emptiness

noun

  • A nonexistence; a lack of existence. 

  • The state or feeling of being empty. 

  • A void; a nothingness; something lacking existence. 

famine

noun

  • Severe shortage or lack of something. 

  • A period of extreme shortage of food in a region. 

  • Extreme shortage of food in a region. 

How often have the words emptiness and famine occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )