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vacuity

/væˈkjuːɪtɪ/

vacuity noun: emptiness.

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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
    • to find so sensible a breach or vacuity in the course of the passions, by means of this breach in the connexion of ideas[…].1748, [David Hume], chapter III, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 13
  2. Physical emptiness, an absence of matter.
  3. Idleness; listlessness.
  4. An empty or inane remark or thing.

vacuity meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Sanskrit and Arabic

vacuity in Tamil

வெறுமை

vacuity in Urdu

بےخیالی, جوف, خالی پن, خلا

vacuity in Sanskrit

vacuity, empty space, air, ether, sky
ख kha
vacuity, nonentity, absolute nonexistence
शून्य śūnyá

vacuity in Arabic

emptiness
فَرَاغ farāḡ
vacuum
فَرَاغ farāḡ, حَيِّز ḥayyiz

Examples of vacuity in a sentence

  • The Baronet was not more animated than ordinarily—there was a happy vacuity about him which enabled him to face a dinner, a death, a church, a marriage, with the same indifferent ease.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I...
  • At first glance, Saltburn is classic clash-of-the-classes fare: a tale of social strata, moral vacuity and the seductions of wealth, with a poor boy ushered into his rich friend's kingdom.2023 November 13, Rosalind Jana, “Saltburn and the bizarre life of Britain's stately homes”, in BBC:

Synonyms of vacuity

Forms of vacuity

pluralvacuities
alternative formvacuitie

Origin of vacuity

From Latin vacuitās (“empty space, vacancy, vacuity”); equivalent to vacu(ous) + -ity.

Questions about vacuity

What does vacuity mean?
Vacuity means emptiness.
What is vacuity in Tamil?
Vacuity in Tamil is வெறுமை. See Vacuity meaning in Tamil.
How do you use vacuity in a sentence?
The Baronet was not more animated than ordinarily—there was a happy vacuity about him which enabled him to face a dinner, a death, a church, a marriage, with the same indifferent ease.
What part of speech is vacuity?
Vacuity is a noun.
How do you pronounce vacuity?
Vacuity is pronounced /væˈkjuːɪtɪ/ (UK).
What is the plural of vacuity?
The plural of vacuity is vacuities.

Words near vacuity in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vacuity (page history and authors); vacuity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vacuity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ख (Sanskrit) (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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