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A region empty of matter
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vacuity
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "hollow space," from Latin vacuitas "empty space, emptiness, absence, vacancy, freedom," from vacuus "empty" (see vacuum (n.)). Originally in anatomy. Meaning "vacancy of mind or thought" is attested from 1590s.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Addressing Honderich's work on its own terms, one must question whether he demonstrates the complete vacuity of Conservative thinking. ▪ But the book's principal defect remains the vacuity of its protagonist. ▪ He laid aside ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the absence of matter [syn: vacuum ] total absence of matter [syn: vacuousness ] a region empty of matter [syn: vacuum ] total lack of meaning or ideas [syn: inanity , senselessness , mindlessness , pointlessness ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Vacuity were a Canadian indie rock band from Kitchener . Vacuity's albums include The Middle Ground , released in 2004, and 2006's Come On Get Real . The band released its 2008 album, At the Command of a Blanket Sky on CD, USB Drive, and as a free download ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 emptiness. 2 Physical emptiness, an absence of matter; vacuum. 3 idleness. 4 An empty or inane remark or thing.
Usage examples of vacuity.
The works called good are dry and jejune, soon consummated, often of questionable value, and leaving behind them when finished a sense of vacuity.
When the mind is observed free of any conceptual fluctuation, it is seen as an unobscured, clear, and vivid vacuity, without any difference between former and latter states.
We reflect within ourselves there is life, there is intellect, not in extension but as power without magnitude, issue of Authentic Being which is power self-existing, no vacuity but a thing most living and intellective--nothing more living, more intelligent, more real--and producing its effect by contact and in the ratio of the contact, closely to the close, more remotely to the remote.
Virginia statutes in his citations even got some of the locals there recanting on their interrogatories, claim they were tricked by the fancy language where Szyrk claims his sculpture is site specific for the moral torpor and spiritual vacuity of the place the only words they got hold of were moral and spiritual, thought it was all some big tribute.
Some mixup over a clouded title to the land where Szyrk put up his Cyclone Seven, threw in the court's failure to cite the Virginia statutes in his citations even got some of the locals there recanting on their interrogatories, claim they were tricked by the fancy language where Szyrk claims his sculpture is site specific for the moral torpor and spiritual vacuity of the place the only words they got hold of were moral and spiritual, thought it was all some big tribute.
And Cardan, who dream'd that he discoursed with his dead Father in the Moon, made thereof no mortal Interpretation: and even to dream that we are dead, was no condemnable Fantasm in old oneirocriticism, as having a signification of Liberty, vacuity from Cares, exemption and freedom from Troubles, unknown unto the dead.
The Tetrapolis, or four cities, if they retained their name and position, must have left a large vacuity in a circumference of twelve miles.
When the bland and blustery fellow arrived,Gyro was happy to see that his accompanying thought balloon -- despite theongoing life-or-death crisis -- reflected the man's typical vacuity, consistingmostly of an empty white canvas with some children's primer figures -- Dick,Jane, and Spot -- romping about.