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vacuity

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va⋅cu⋅i⋅ty

  [va-kyoo-i-tee, vuh-]
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–noun, plural -ties.
1. the state of being vacuous or without contents; vacancy; emptiness: the vacuity of the open sea.
2. absence of thought or intelligence; inanity; blankness: a mind of undeniable vacuity.
3. a time or state of dullness, lacking in mental or physical action or productivity: the vacuity of modern existence.
4. an empty space; void: a vacuity in the earth formed by erosion.
5. absence or lack of something specified: a vacuity of feeling.
6. something inane, senseless, or stupid: conversation full of vacuities.
7. a vacuum.
Origin:
1535–45; < L vacuitās. See vacuous, -ity
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va·cu·i·ty   (vā-kyōō'ĭ-tē, və-)   
n.   pl. vac·u·i·ties

  1. Total absence of matter; emptiness.

  2. An empty space; a vacuum.

  3. Total lack of ideas; emptiness of mind.

  4. Absence of meaningful occupation; idleness: "the crew, being patient people, much given to slumber and vacuity" (Washington Irving).

  5. The quality or fact of being devoid of something specified: a vacuity of taste; a vacuity of emotions.

  6. Something, especially a remark, that is pointless or inane: a conversation full of vacuities.


[Middle English vacuite, from Old French, from Latin vacuitās, from vacuus, empty; see vacuum.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

vacuity 
1541, "hollow space," from L. vacuitas "empty space, vacancy, freedom," from vacuus "empty" (see vacuum). Meaning "vacancy of mind or thought" is attested from 1594.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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