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