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va·cu·i·ty
\vaˈkyüəd.ē, vəˈ-, -ətē, -i\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Latin vacuitas, from vacuus empty + -itas -ity — more at vacuum
1. : an empty space:
a. : an unfilled cavity, interstice, or hollow within a body or substance
b. : an empty open space : void, gap
c. : an extent devoid throughout of content, substance, or activity : a dull or monotonous stretch
< the long vacuity of an arctic night >
< smoking fills the vacuities of life — Bergen Evans >
2. : space wholly or approximately devoid of matter : vacuum
3. : the condition, fact, or quality of being empty or unfilled either physically or spiritually : vacancy, emptiness, hollowness
< the vacuity of the arteries after death >
< the vacuity of a desert >
4. : vacancy of mind : the state or fact of being temporarily or characteristically free of ideas, reflections, cares : mental emptiness or inactivity
< fatigued his mind into an agreeably grave vacuity — Arnold Bennett >
< a cunning gravity of manner concealing mere vacuity — J.A.Froude >
5. : inanity, blankness, vacuousness
< the vacuity of his face >
6. : a vacuous or inane thing
< fill up a speech with vacuities >
7. : the quality or state of being completely free from or devoid of something
< his lesser verse seems … full of empty conceits whose virtuosity and lavish display only emphasize their intellectual and emotional vacuity — R.A.Hall b. 1911 >
8. : nihility, nothingness |