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vacuity

noun
/væˈkjuːɪtɪ/UK

Etymology

From Latin vacuitās (“empty space, vacancy, vacuity”); equivalent to vacu(ous) + -ity.

  1. derived from vacuitās

Definitions

  1. Emptiness.

    • The meanes I use to suppresse this frenzy, and which seemeth the fittest for my purpose, is to crush, and trample this humane pride and fiercenesse under foot, to make them feele the emptinesse, vacuitie, and no worth of man[…].
    • to find so sensible a breach or vacuity in the course of the passions, by means of this breach in the connexion of ideas[…].
    • The Baronet was not more animated than ordinarily—there was a happy vacuity about him which enabled him to face a dinner, a death, a church, a marriage, with the same indifferent ease.

  2. Physical emptiness, an absence of matter

    Physical emptiness, an absence of matter; vacuum.

  3. Idleness

    Idleness; listlessness.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. An empty or inane remark or thing.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA