different between emptiness vs wantonness

English

empty +? -ness

emptiness (countable and uncountable, plural emptinesses)

From Middle English wantonnesse, wantonesse, wantounesse, wantownesse, equivalent to wanton +? -ness.

wantonness (usually uncountable, plural wantonnesses)

(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act IV scene ii^[1]:
  The spirit of wantonness is, sure, scared out of him: if the devil have him not in fee-simple, with fine and recovery, he will never, I think, in the way of waste, attempt us again.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, ch. 16:
  The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.
(countable, dated) A particular wanton act.
- 1882, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty, Little Brown (Boston), v. 3, p. 366:
  These were simply the wantonnesses of a dishonest man.

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