Hypertext Webster Gateway: "vacuity"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Vacuity \Va*cu"i*ty\, n. [L. vacuitas. See {Vacuous}.]
1. The quality or state of being vacuous, or not filled;
emptiness; vacancy; as, vacuity of mind; vacuity of
countenance.

Hunger is such a state of vacuity as to require a
fresh supply of aliment. --Arbuthnot.

2. Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an
invisible fluid only; emptiness; void; vacuum.

A vacuity is interspersed among the particles of
matter. --Bentley.

God . . . alone can answer all our longings and fill
every vacuity of our soul. --Rogers.

3. Want of reality; inanity; nihility. [R.]

Their expectations will meet with vacuity.
--Glanvill.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

vacuity
n 1: the absence of matter [syn: {vacuum}]
2: total absence of matter [syn: {vacuousness}]
3: a region empty of matter [syn: {vacuum}]
4: total lack of meaning or ideas [syn: {inanity}, {senselessness},
{mindlessness}, {pointlessness}]


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