vacuity

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vacuity

  • /væˈkjuːɪtɪ/ UK
  • /vəˈkjuːɪtɪ/ UK
  • /vaˈkjuːɪti/ UK
  • /vəˈkjuːɪti/ UK

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

noun vacuities · vacuitie

  1. countable, uncountable 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[…].
  2. countable, uncountable Physical emptiness, an absence of matter.

    Similar: vacuum, vacancy, vacantness

  3. countable, uncountable Idleness; listlessness.
  4. countable, uncountable An empty or inane remark or thing.

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noun emptiness

Españolvacuidad
日本語空 kara
Portuguêsvacuidade
Françaisvacuité
Italianovacuità
Ελληνικάκενότητα kenótita
العربيةفَرَاغ farāḡ

noun vacuum

Españolvacuo
日本語空 kara
Portuguêsvácuo
Françaisvacuité
Ελληνικάκενό kenó
العربيةفَرَاغ farāḡ, حَيِّز ḥayyiz

noun idleness

Portuguêsinatividade

noun a pointless or inane remark

Portuguêsvacuidade

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@misc{vacuity_2026,
  title = {vacuity},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/vacuity},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}