Crossword clues for vacuity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vacuity \Va*cu"i*ty\, n. [L. vacuitas. See Vacuous.]
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The quality or state of being vacuous, or not filled; emptiness; vacancy; as, vacuity of mind; vacuity of countenance.
Hunger is such a state of vacuity as to require a fresh supply of aliment.
--Arbuthnot. -
Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only; emptiness; void; vacuum.
A vacuity is interspersed among the particles of matter.
--Bentley.God . . . alone can answer all our longings and fill every vacuity of our soul.
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Want of reality; inanity; nihility. [R.]
Their expectations will meet with vacuity.
--Glanvill.
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 emptiness. 2 Physical emptiness, an absence of matter; vacuum. 3 idleness. 4 An empty or inane remark or thing.
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
Vacuity can refer to:
- Emptiness, the human condition
- Vacuum, the absence of matter
- Śūnyatā, the Buddhist term about the impermanent nature of form
- Vacuity (band), an alternative rock band from Kitchener, Ontario
- A song by French metal band Gojira, from the album The Way Of All Flesh (2008)
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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 via their website, and released the song "The 5th of November" as a single. According to some critics, the band's sound is similar to that of Radiohead.
Band members included Rob McFee on guitar and vocals, Paul McGough on bass, Greg Osborn on guitar, and Emeri Schweigert on drums.
In 2006, Vacuity played the North by Northeast festival, and in 2008–09 the band toured Canada in support of At the Command of a Blanket Sky. Vacuity disbanded in January 2013.
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.