Word of the Day:
vacuity
What It Means
Physical emptiness, an absence of matter.
Vacuity in Context
“to find so sensible a breach or vacuity in the course of the passions, by means of this breach in the connexion of ideas[…].”
Did You Know?
From Latin vacuitās (“empty space, vacancy, vacuity”); equivalent to vacu(ous) + -ity.
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