vacuity
/vəˈkjuːɪti
/noun [mass noun]
1Lack of thought or intelligence; empty-headedness: he denounced what he considered the frivolity or vacuity of much contemporary painting...
- We weren't going to hear praise of our excesses, our shallowness, our engulfing vacuity.
- His reply was non-committal to the point of vacuity.
- The biggest display ads of the season could not disguise the vacuity of the event.
Synonyms
empty-headedness, lack of thought, lack of intelligence, brainlessness, denseness, thickness, vacuousness, vacancy, inaneness, inanity, stupidity
2Empty space; emptiness.The opening of the infraorbital canal is sunk into a vacuity that penetrates the rostrum....
- Only the anterior and posterior ends of the anterior interpterygoid vacuity are preserved in the Herschel specimen.
- Neither specimen shows evidence of an incisive foramen or other vacuity in the parts of the palatal process that are preserved.
