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vacuities

vacuities is the plural of vacuity.

vacuities is the plural of vacuitie.

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.

Questions about vacuities

What is vacuities the plural of?
Vacuities is the plural of vacuity.

Words near vacuities in the dictionary

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

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