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vacuitie

vacuitie is the obsolete spelling of vacuity.

Meaning of vacuity

Noun

vacuity (countable and uncountable, plural vacuities)

  1. 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[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. Physical emptiness, an absence of matter.
  3. Idleness; listlessness.
  4. An empty or inane remark or thing.

Forms of vacuitie

pluralvacuities

Questions about vacuitie

What is vacuitie the obsolete spelling of?
Vacuitie is the obsolete spelling of vacuity.

Words near vacuitie in the dictionary

  1. vacufuged
  2. vacufuges
  3. vacuism
  4. vacuist
  5. vacuists
  6. vacuitie
  7. vacuities
  8. vacuitous
  9. vacuity
  10. vacularity
  11. vacularization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vacuitie (page history and authors); vacuity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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