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Vacuity

//væˈkjuːɪtɪ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Emptiness. countable, uncountable

    "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. 2
    total lack of meaning or ideas wordnet
  3. 3
    Physical emptiness, an absence of matter; vacuum. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    a region that is devoid of matter wordnet
  5. 5
    Idleness; listlessness. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    the absence of matter wordnet
  2. 7
    An empty or inane remark or thing. countable, uncountable

Etymology

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

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