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Synonyms for vacuity


Grammar : Noun
Spell : va-kyoo-i-tee, vuh-
Phonetic Transcription : væˈkyu ɪ ti, və-



Définition of vacuity

Origin :
  • late 14c., "hollow space," from Latin vacuitas "empty space, vacancy, freedom," from vacuus "empty" (see vacuum). Originally in anatomy. Meaning "vacancy of mind or thought" is attested from 1590s.
  • noun emptiness
  • noun inanity
Example sentences :
  • The vacuity and the superfluity are thus partially compensated by each other.
  • Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato
  • "Or the vacuity of the unlucky, possibly," said Tom, with an easy laugh.
  • Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever
  • Dust on the water, cries on the water, then vacuity and silence.
  • Extract from : « Appearances » by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
  • Did it not all spring from the barrenness and vacuity of rural life?
  • Extract from : « A Spoil of Office » by Hamlin Garland
  • She beats the taeds that live in stanes,An' fatten in vacuity!
  • Extract from : « The Book of Humorous Verse » by Various
  • No corner of any place can be empty; there can be no vacuity.
  • Extract from : « Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions » by John Donne
  • This is the method of Vacuity or Dawdling formerly mentioned.
  • Extract from : « Assimilative Memory » by Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
  • Around it and beyond was only the blackness and silence of vacuity.
  • Extract from : « Old Junk » by H. M. Tomlinson
  • He then rose with his attendants, and pierced into the vacuity of heaven.
  • Extract from : « The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) » by Valmiki
  • How a Bodhisattwa merges all natural attributes into vacuity.
  • Extract from : « The Influence of Buddhism on Primitive Christianity » by Arthur Lillie

Antonyms for vacuity

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